Re: [Libguestfs] [libnbd PATCH 11/18] tests/closure-lifetimes: wrap source code at 80 characters
On 4/19/23 15:30, Eric Blake wrote:
On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 07:26:24PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> The debug, chunk, extent, and completion callbacks are all created with
> multiplicated compound initializers. Introduce just one local variable for
I understand how you arrived at 'multiplicated', given 'duplicated'
and 'triplicated' in other patches; but it still sounds funny to me
and aspell doesn't like it.
Sigh. I did invent the word, but then I did my homework -- or so I
thought -- and verified it in wiktionary immediately:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/multiplicate#Verb
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Verb
multiplicate (third-person singular simple present *multiplicates*,
present participle *multiplicating*, simple past and past participle
*multiplicated*)
1. To make multiple copies of
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And funnily enough, in Hungarian, we have perfectly matching words for
"duplicated", "triplicated", *and* "multiplicated".
What good is a dictionary if words it does *not* call archaic or
obsolete sound funny to native speakers? /smh
I think this is one case where
'duplicated' can be used in the sense of 'done more than once' rather
than 'done twice' (even 'triplicate' as 'done thrice' is less
frequently heard). Another alternative is 'repeated'.
Thanks, I like "repeated".
Laszlo