* 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.
@ 2014-01-21 3:53 99% ` Gordon Pettey
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From: Gordon Pettey @ 2014-01-21 3:53 UTC (permalink / raw
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If your going to make that argumint, ewe mite a's well right the
documentation in LOL-1337. Encouraging bad grammar in documentation just
make's thing's harder for everybody.
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 9:28 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 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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