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From: Gordon Pettey <petteyg359@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org
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 21:53:25 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHY5Mee2jxP6ZsxVpnVxxZnazz3j2s4H1KSJjbQ9=sROuHp+Ew@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201401202228.25558.vapier@gentoo.org>

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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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  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-21  3:53 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
2014-01-21  3:53             ` Gordon Pettey [this message]
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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