Re: Spelling fixes - round 6

[Kuba Ober]

On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Dan Kegel wrote:
> A few issues:
> -
> -
>      DPMI_xalloc
> -
> - special virtualalloc, allocates lineary monoton growing memory.
> -
> - special virtualalloc, allocates linear monoton growing memory.
>
> Um... Probably should be 'linearly'.
> But if you're opening the can of worms, might as well really
> improve it.  I suspect this would be better:
> -
>      DPMI_xalloc
> -
> - special virtualalloc, allocates lineary monoton growing memory.
> -
> - Try to VirtualAlloc the len bytes just past the last block we allocated
> -
> - If that's not available, try 64K beyond; if still not available, fail.
> -
>
> -/* Volume functions derived from Alsaplayer source */
> +/* Volume functions derivated from Alsaplayer source */
>
> What?  What's wrong with "derived"?  "Derivated" isn't even a word?!

He's translating it to Gerenglish. Maybe we should get a native speaker to do 
it?

Cheers, Kuba