On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 19:29 +0100, Toby Smithe wrote: > Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > > (note: cross-posting to both the GNOME and KDE lists) > > > > Which is more correct: 'plugin', 'plug-in' or 'plug in'? 'plugin' would be the noun form I would say. There's a verb 'to plug in' but that's not so useful for talking about software. > > > > Now extend this to other words > > like 'log-in', 'set-up', 'plug-in', 'pop-up', 'start-up', 'mark-up', > 'in-line', 'on-line', > > and 'built-in'. > > I am on the list and I was party to that discussion. I believe that the > system should be "to log in" (verb) and "login" noun. Again, "mark up" > (verb) and "markup" (noun). My rationale is on the archives: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-l10n-eng/2006-September/000341.html I agree. It drives me crackers when I see people using 'login' as a verb, but it's quite definitely the correct noun form. I'm not sure I agree with every part of the email you linked to in the ubuntu archives though. Some places you've gone for using hyphenated forms of compound nouns I'd argue are splitting up what have become real words in computing terminology. But I won't go into that right now. What I really should do is start doing some translation work myself.
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