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On 10/23/2011 10:25 PM, Father Chrysostomos via RT wrote: > On Sun Oct 23 21:00:09 2011, Hugmeir wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:44 PM, Father Chrysostomos via RT< >> perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote: >> >>> On Sun Oct 23 18:26:45 2011, Hugmeir wrote: >>> (Please, don’t put -deable at the end of a Latin-based word. :-) >> It’s >>> ‘downgradable’.) >>> >> >> But I like my half-broken english..! Fine :P > > Please don’t think I’m trying to pick on you. I just see this misuse so > often I thought maybe mentioning it once would give others a hint, too. > > Generally, only the consonants c g k m v m z can have -eable after them, > but there are exceptions. > > (You don’t know how long I’ve been wanting to bring this up--but now I’m > *way* off topic.) > The macro UTF8_IS_DOWNGRADEABLE_START has been in the core since: df84a23b01be600297e1e5268d9351b807f107f6 Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> Wed, 31 Jan 2001 It's understandable that this spelling has become enshrined as valid. FWIW, it's never bothered me, a native English speaker.Thread Previous | Thread Next