From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Alexander Berntsen <alexander@plaimi.net>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH v3] Test for read-only filesystems, bail out during preinst if there are any which will be written to and display a useful error message. Fixes bug 378869.
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 22:28:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201401202228.25558.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52DBAB5D.3030802@plaimi.net>
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On Sunday 19 January 2014 05:39:25 Alexander Berntsen wrote:
> On 19/01/14 10:17, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > prefer OSes -> OS's
>
> That's just not proper English.
i don't think that phrase means what you think it means. if you're wishing
for English to be a standard, then you're in for a rude surprise.
> It makes no sense.
of course it does.
> Please don't prefer
> that. If for nothing else, then to prevent me from sighing whenever I
> have to read it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_plurals#Plurals_of_letters_and_abbreviations
-mike
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-21 3:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-11 3:07 [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Check for and report read-only filesystems Chris Reffett
2014-01-11 5:09 ` Brian Dolbec
2014-01-11 14:22 ` Chris Reffett
2014-01-13 23:24 ` Mike Frysinger
2014-01-17 0:39 ` [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH v2] Test for read-only filesystems, bail out during preinst if there are any which will be written to and display a useful error message. Fixes bug 378869 Chris Reffett
2014-01-19 2:00 ` [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH v3] " Chris Reffett
2014-01-19 9:17 ` Mike Frysinger
2014-01-19 10:39 ` Alexander Berntsen
2014-01-19 21:43 ` Alec Warner
2014-01-21 3:28 ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2014-01-21 3:53 ` Gordon Pettey
2014-01-21 22:44 ` Mike Frysinger
2014-01-21 0:50 ` [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH v4] " Chris Reffett
2014-01-21 3:32 ` Mike Frysinger
2014-01-21 4:00 ` [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH v5] " Chris Reffett
2014-01-22 5:24 ` Mike Frysinger
2014-01-22 18:33 ` [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH v6] " Chris Reffett
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