686-smp kernels old?
Derek Broughton
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Mon Mar 27 15:19:26 BST 2006
Shawn McMahon wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 10:42:33AM +0100, Colin Watson said:
>>
>> ("Morgued" is not a word. If it were a word, it would have a couple of
>> different possible meanings, which would be confusing. The word you're
>> looking for is simply "removed".)
>
> It may not be a standard English word, but it's jargon in several
> disciplines, including, evidently, Ubuntu:
>
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/prelude-nids/+bug/33216
English is a living language, and that includes all sorts of developments
around words for "death". While it's possible to give words any meaning at
all, common usage (not "grammar", which throws fits at using nouns as
verbs) would suggest that "morgued" could only mean something like "sent to
the morgue". Since "morgue" has been in the language for years with the
meaning of "archive" (as in "newspaper morgue"), I have no problem with
it :-)
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derek
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