[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] change AC3 to AC-3

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 09:37:39AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 08:08:27PM -0400, Justin Ruggles wrote:
> > The Wanderer wrote:
> > > Justin Ruggles wrote:
> > > 
> > >> The Wanderer wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Justin Ruggles wrote:
> > > 
> > >>>> I'm not saying that this is what I always follow... but if I had
> > >>>> to choose a set of rules...
> > >>>>
> > >>>> I think that a period should be used for either indicating the
> > >>>> end of a complete sentence or separating a Doxygen brief
> > >>>> description from a detailed description.  For capitalization, I
> > >>>> think that the only considerations should be normal English
> > >>>> grammer: start of a sentence, proper names, acronyms, etc...
> > >>> If I'm not mistaken, that's roughly the same as the current rule.
> > >>> The only question I see is, how do you define what counts as a
> > >>> "sentence"?
> > >>>
> > >>> Diego has, I believe, been using the definition that a sentence
> > >>> must have both a verb and an object, and anything which has both is
> > >>> one. This seems reasonable to me; it sometimes produces results
> > >>> which I do not find intuitive, but it has not to date produced
> > >>> results which I found seriously objectionable. Do you disagree with
> > >>> that definition? If so, what would you propose as an alternative?
> > >> Yes, that is exactly where I object.  I think that a sentence
> > >> fragment should not be treated as a complete sentence.  To me it
> > >> seems more than just counter-intuitive.
> > > 
> > > So, you think that some things which have both verb and object do not
> > > constitute complete sentences?
> > 
> > I think the main point here is the difference between a complete
> > sentence and a dependent clause.  The latter may have a verb and an
> > object, but cannot stand alone as a complete sentence.
> > 
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependent_clause
> 
> Still a verb is a necessary requirement for a sentence to be complete.

I belive that subject+verb being considered a requirement for a sentance
in german, i do not think this is neccessarily true for all languages.
But maybe iam totally wrong ...
you know how good iam in languages ;)

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