Re: [Pspp-commits] [SCM] GNU PSPP branch, master, updated. v0.6.1-1748-gc8fba7c

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 08:04:29PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>      John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:
>      
>      > commit 01b970b8972e4e457b1d8e3f5af350c325152942
>      > Author: John Darrington <address@hidden>
>      > Date:   Sun Oct 17 22:12:48 2010 +0200
>      >
>      >     Fix typos in printed strings
>      
>      @@ -188,11 +188,11 @@ read_inline_record (struct dfm_reader *r)
>         if (!lex_get_line_raw (r->lexer))
>           {
>             lex_discard_line (r->lexer);
>             msg (SE, _("Unexpected end-of-file while reading data in BEGIN "
>                        "DATA.  This probably indicates "
>      -                 "a missing or misformatted END DATA command.  "
>      +                 "a missing or miss-formatted END DATA command.  "
>                        "END DATA must appear by itself on a single line "
>                        "with exactly one space between words."));
>             return false;
>           }
>      
>      Was this what you intended to do?  I would understand mis- as a
>      prefix, but I've never seen miss- as a prefix.
>
> Perhaps you're right.  I just used msggrep and ispell to identify mis[s]spelt
> words.  It rejected the former, but not the latter.  Perhaps i naively relied
> upon this method, and confused myself since the correct German prefix is spelt
> "miss".  Feel free to revert.

I changed this to "a missing or incorrectly formatted END DATA
command."  I guess that is better than "misformatted" or
"miss-formatted", since it should appear in every dictionary.
-- 
Ben Pfaff 
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