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Author Retro
Recipients Retro, docs@python, eric.araujo, georg.brandl, lemburg
Date 2010-10-22.08:01:50
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All the words that Georg Brandl fixed for this issue are okay as they stand.
Please leave them as they are written. Thank you.

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 1:19 AM, Marc-Andre Lemburg
<report@bugs.python.org>wrote:

>
> Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@egenix.com> added the comment:
>
> Éric Araujo wrote:
> >
> > Éric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org> added the comment:
> >
> > Adjectives require hyphens but nouns do not.  “thread-safety” should be
> reverted to “thread safety”.  I haven’t searched for a grammar reference,
> but you can take Wikipedia as an example: “Thread safety is a computer
> programming concept applicable in the context of multi-threaded programs. A
> piece of code is thread-safe if it functions correctly during simultaneous
> execution by multiple threads.”
>
> Are you sure ?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_compound#Types_of_compound_nouns
>
> This appears to be more a question of personal style than a
> grammar rule.
>
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