On 06/27/2015 08:36 AM, Richard Hartmann wrote: > On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 4:40 AM, Sitaram Chamarty <sitar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> [1]: https://github.com/sitaramc/gaf > > gaf expands to "gitify arbitrary files"; out of interest, where did > you pick up the term "gitify"?
Hmm... I don't know; isn't "-ify" a common enough "verbifier" (there I go again!) I'm not even sure if I heard this specific one somewhere before either, now that I think about it. In India, the use of "-fy" has been pretty common for at least a couple of decades, maybe more. Especially teens (and many adults too I suppose, though less often) are quite happy to use it even with Hindi (or Telugu, etc.) words. I suspect the reason is that, while most urban Indians are at least bi-lingual (often tri-lingual), they don't necessarily know every single concept or word in all the languages they do know. So gaps in forming a sentence are filled in any old how. For example, a girl might say "don't gillu-fy me" to her brother. "gillu" is "pinch" in Telugu; so this is "don't pinch me". This does not necessarily mean the child does not know the English word "pinch"; she may know it, but the Telugu word came quicker to her mind, so she just used it and did something to make it fit. (Apologies for the long reply; it *is* Saturday and I'm feeling too lazy to make the effort to be brief!) _______________________________________________ vcs-home mailing list vcs-home@lists.madduck.net http://lists.madduck.net/listinfo/vcs-home