[BRLTTY] Contraction error and patch: Irredeemable

[Lee Maschmeyer]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:47:40PM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by Lee Maschmeyer on 2012/07/30 at 16:02 -0400]
> 
> >The words Irredeemable and friends (irredeemability, irredeemableness
> >etc) should not use the ed sign:
> 
> The same would be true, of course, for "irreducible" and friends.

Already correct.

> What, 
> however, about "irredenta"?

I don't have any examples so I wouldn't touch it until somebody
complains and can justify their conclusions. The rules say that
contractions should be used in a rather free manner so the ed sign
there would be used unless there's a counter principle. I do note that
in irredeemable the ir is a negating prefix. The base word is
redeemable. However, there is no such word as redenta so the ir there
is not a negating prefix but just part of the word.

Moreover you're going from an unaccented to an accented syllable which
is permissible for contractions. So I suspect the ed is OK there.

-- 

Lee Maschmeyer

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