On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 8:15 AM, Colin Guthrie <[email protected]> wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and Andrey Borzenkov at 04/02/14 15:36 did gyre and gimble: >> В Tue, 4 Feb 2014 15:31:58 +0000 >> Barry Scott <[email protected]> пишет: >> >>> Change the messages output and also all internal >>> function names and variables to match. >> >> As a non-native English speaker I must admit ellipsize was more >> understandable. I am not sure I would understand "elide" if it was not >> used in this context. > > As a native English speaker I must admit that "elide" was a new one on me! I am a native English speaker. I was familiar with elide, but not in this context, however it is clear to me now that this is the correct word for what we are doing. > > I asked one of my colleagues (a former English teacher) and his take on > it was that "an elision" is more commonly used to mean "joining > together" (which in the process might mean abridging some of the > components) - this is typically the usage in music notation for example > where a line joining two notes together. we are joining the beginning and the end together > > I do agree that ellipsize is not a real world but it is quite descriptive. > > If we do want to describe the action taken rather than the effect, then > I would use the word "truncate" here, rather than elide as this is > really what happens now as implemented. > > If the logic was made smarter to not necessarily truncate at the end > (e.g. to remove vowels or similar), then "abbreviate" would be better > (although I cannot see this happening any time soon in a language > agnostic way!). > > My £0.02 > > Col > > PS, why is "abbreviate" such a long word? abbreviate is not correct, as we make no attempt to preserve the full meaning.
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