On 13-12-22 08:06 PM, Piotr Sipika wrote:
> Hi Andrej,
>
>> "Copying file operation was interrupted and some errors were encountered"
>>
>> Would that look correctly?
> I think so.
Except that "Copying file operation" isn't correct English. (You want
"File-copying operation")
The problem is that the pattern is "<adjective> operation" and "Copying
file" doesn't make intuitive sense as an adjective.
When you say "copying file", you're either saying "[I am] copying [the]
file." or you're saying "a file of type 'copying'" (Like "temporary file")
Adjectives build left-ward from the noun they modify but, intuitively,
we know there's no such thing as a "copying file" so, on the first
attempt to parse is, the mind assumes "copying" must have been used as a
verb, "operation" is what's being copied, and "file" is the type of
"operation" being copied.
As with using the possessive form of words, you reverse the order when
making adjectives ("The head of the toy belonging to the dog belonging
to Dave" becomes "Dave's dog's toy's head") and you use a hyphen to
indicate that multiple words are part of the same adjective.
(That "file" modifies "copying" and then "copying" modifies "operation"
rather than "file" and "copying" both modifying "operation" directly.)
Hence:
"An operation of copying of files"
-----------------------------------
"An operation" -> "operation"
"An operation of copying" -> "copying operation"
"An operation of (copying of files)" "file-copying operation"
-----------------------------------
"file-copying operation"
(Without the hyphen, it'd be "an operation of copying *and* files")
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