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> 'nonpositive' when you can no longer stand negativity,

nonpositive is not the same as negative, though.

> or misspellings which were clearly the result of sleep
> deprivation or drinking ...  ;-)

I don't drink.

> But, the libc documentation is supposed to be a "professional"
> document.

I don't recall that ever being a goal.  A complete and useful
document, sure, but that's all.

> I didn't list all the made up, abbreviated names like
> 'qelem' (queue element) and 'numelem' (number of elements)
> that would only make sense to a native speaker of English
> given the appropriate context.

Those aren't English those are variable names.