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 ---------- Verb multiplicate (third-person singular simple present *multiplicates*, present participle *multiplicating*, simple past and past participle *multiplicated*) 1. To make multiple copies of ---------- 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 _______________________________________________ Libguestfs mailing list Libguestfs@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs
