From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D579B139694 for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:49:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D574D21C300; Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:48:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9144521C2FC for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:48:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from katipo2.lan (unknown [203.86.205.69]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: kentnl) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5A860340A23 for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:48:55 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 09:48:27 +1200 From: Kent Fredric To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions Message-ID: <20170411094827.6acdccd3@katipo2.lan> In-Reply-To: References: <8F38F35E-A4CE-4530-880C-E409E672F253@gentoo.org> Organization: Gentoo X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.14.1 (GTK+ 2.24.31; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; boundary="Sig_/1W21uxCykHbUBO7q=7SzFvw"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: cd60d27c-1ac6-431e-88bf-64b45d92490d X-Archives-Hash: 317134c28d6bf18e9f51dbdfdefa2c37 --Sig_/1W21uxCykHbUBO7q=7SzFvw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 12:03:51 -0400 "William L. Thomson Jr." wrote: > That is ALLOT of work to fiddle Unrelated to thread and is not intended as a "I'm better because I grammar = well" thing, but this drives me nuts and I've bitten my tongue on it for months. But you use that word that isn't a word in the context you mean, frequently. You want *two* words, "a lot", which mean "a large volume of" "allot" is a *verb*, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/allot#Verb Which means "to proportion out" By analogy, this makes as much sense as if you'd written: "That is a distributing of work to fiddle" Or "That is an apportion of work to fiddle" Which is nonsense. I myself used to make this mistake, and now I just avoid the word in entirety as a defensive strategy. "I use that word a lot" -> "I use that word frequently" "It is a lot of work" -> "It is substantial work" "I have a lot of time" -> "I have significant time" "I will allot you 5 units of rice" -> "I will apportion you 5 units of rice" ( I try not to play grammar nazi, but when you make only one mistake that I= notice, I ignore it, but when you make the same single mistake over and over and = over again, on a daily basis, I feel somebody should point it out. Please accept my apologies for having some flavour of mental disorder for= being triggered by this ) --Sig_/1W21uxCykHbUBO7q=7SzFvw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEPZazbI/qrFT1o9rn6FQySxNmqCAFAljr/bsACgkQ6FQySxNm qCDgjA/9H9VZ1o9EhXgxBr4WOl1PBeD2sOFJfnPJMe1pm/DpFmtJVAOxxBz7YW5/ +VNocl9bxa8cOR1TnVJys8dXSwdVG4qlBu8Qdte5vU4vlWvxaDWvy9zG+Skt2/MV T5/15LsQ4U+fBW/Oiq8DEFyVW5PfFuP0Xd1MlXVcqLLA12zXmP6L7qexYkbKQDCT HtEECkc0J+8+PLzZzDsgUaHvXfdPYjH1zrn794dP7bnF3Ws3AXeUrRjmT41aoDSA 0DlpUoAq1JL1PEBlsysY/YuxZtms0gIn+Kv79RIXGqbEfQgnFuYEoe8UX7L3kujb r4EyN4R+Nmp5fLnnLJf3U5RT1C8OGm+19WWB1L+M+d2WvVVM15q7c9w/HxoGFEgT 0K+EEZm9ewpjobzfZuN6eMx9TCE6aI+C5gkRbIVQf64A80IEje4BTl6D6MFyHQCV jC0HcXO1nS/8hgvS6KZtqGqxkSFC36z0RrMr9mDqU28fuaktLJyqfk+v5oJhtsXM JwTjV9Ril5dOxmzGtF66dwEoz77MPU0GMmTzGLq6u58VCZvOZt+bI81LnOk3Cty+ k5zhrfGZ/eaBJVJUuxx47z+RQwjtmFBjfRaeO8dYjUyyp98eiyRzGuQrPGiETkzL 2CNIv7SBr8tB5Jo0LeJSsEryNMES0ZRdOGRTd9TbAPRzUsa0OD8= =6/zw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/1W21uxCykHbUBO7q=7SzFvw--