Timeline for Is "drawable" a correct word?
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| Feb 28, 2021 at 20:48 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | @Peter Thanks and not in the context of this Question… | |
| Feb 28, 2021 at 12:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglishLL/status/1365995194932371457 | ||
| Feb 27, 2021 at 10:16 | comment | added | Peter | @RobbieGoodwin, there are several examples in the wikipedia article on space filling curves en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-filling_curve | |
| Feb 26, 2021 at 22:24 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | @Peter Go on then… show us the closest someone came to drawing such a thing, before concluding it was "undrawable"? If it's in a finite square, what's the problem? | |
| Feb 25, 2021 at 8:39 | comment | added | Peter | @RobbieGoodwin there are mathematical "curves" of infinite length that stay within a finite square. I think these might qualify as undrawable. | |
| Feb 24, 2021 at 22:44 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | If you could think of anything "undrawable" the distinction might matter. Until then, what value could the idea have? | |
| Feb 24, 2021 at 17:21 | comment | added | Toby Speight | Oh, I see, @kirk. Yes, that is certainly "a thing" in Java! | |
| Feb 24, 2021 at 14:54 | comment | added | Kirk Woll | @TobySpeight, I was referring to the convention of adding that suffix to a large class of words that would otherwise not have them in ordinary english. Not about "drawable" specifically. | |
| Feb 24, 2021 at 14:41 | comment | added | Toby Speight | That usage long predates Java, @Kirk. Drawables have been a feature of the X11 protocol since, well, before it was X11. And the X Window System almost certainly didn't introduce the term. | |
| Feb 24, 2021 at 13:57 | comment | added | Kirk Woll | In Java, there's a long standing convention to name interfaces (vs. a class) by appending "-able" to the name. This is often done regardless of whether or not the word would be idomatic english. All of this is to say you'll probably often find "words" in that community that are nonstandard. | |
| Feb 24, 2021 at 2:33 | comment | added | jamesqf | Though in computer graphics, a drawable is usually an abstraction for something that can be drawn upon, such as a computer screen, a window on a display, or an image in memory. See e.g. documentation for the X Window system. | |
| Feb 24, 2021 at 1:14 | answer | added | user8719 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 24, 2021 at 0:12 | vote | accept | JKHA | ||
| Feb 23, 2021 at 23:36 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Feb 23, 2021 at 18:28 | comment | added | Ethan Bolker | As the other answers and comments say, this is a legitimate English word. It's hard to say out loud, which makes it a little awkward on the page too. | |
| Feb 23, 2021 at 16:49 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Feb 23, 2021 at 16:32 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | Besides drawable = capable of being sketched / represented pictorially, there's the sense involved in drawable funds - money held in a bank account or similar, which can be [with]drawn and spent. Not to mention drawable wire, with various senses centring on draw = pull [tight], as in drawstrings. | |
| Feb 23, 2021 at 16:05 | history | edited | Rayan Khan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 23, 2021 at 15:45 | comment | added | Ronald Sole | developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/drawable-resource | |
| Feb 23, 2021 at 15:43 | answer | added | Astralbee | timeline score: 25 | |
| Feb 23, 2021 at 15:35 | history | asked | JKHA | CC BY-SA 4.0 |