From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8a602a7f65bebaea X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-10-23 06:41:31 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!proxad.net!proxad.net!news-hub.cableinet.net!blueyonder!btnet-peer!btnet!peer.news.eu-x.com!server2.netnews.ja.net!newshost.central.susx.ac.uk!news.bton.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: John English Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Abstract methods in ADA95 Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:54:29 +0100 Organization: University of Brighton Message-ID: <3DB69C05.3A9856F2@brighton.ac.uk> References: <20021017-143635-828420@foorum.com> <3DAF0ECE.7080204@acm.org> <3DB0785A.1040304@acm.org> <3DB1A736.7000506@acm.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: straumli.it.bton.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: saturn.bton.ac.uk 1035377620 25700 193.62.183.204 (23 Oct 2002 12:53:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@bton.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Oct 2002 12:53:40 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:30075 Date: 2002-10-23T12:53:40+00:00 List-Id: Martin Dowie wrote: > > And don't get me started on "Oriented"!! It should be "Orientated" unless > perhaps you're developing in, for example, China. ;-) Nah... the verb is "to orient" (presumably eastwards :-) from which "oriented" and "orientation". "Orientated" is a back-formation from "orientation". Similar to "to sequester" hence "sequestered" and "sequestration" -- so in the 80s, the government started "sequestrating" union assets, rather than just sequestering them as you would expect. ----------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk -----------------------------------------------------------------