From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NruCi-0004Vv-Jf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:26:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9B438E098E; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:25:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU (sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU [128.112.16.31]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CEEFE098E for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:25:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from math.princeton.edu ([128.112.18.16]) by sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NruC0-0007hM-8o for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:25:53 -0400 Received: from math.Princeton.EDU (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by math.Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o2HEPqOn010201 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:25:52 -0400 Received: (from wwong@localhost) by math.Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id o2HEPq8M010198 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:25:52 -0400 Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:25:52 -0400 From: Willie Wong To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it. Message-ID: <20100317142552.GA9684@math.princeton.edu> References: <4B9F4491.4050105@gmail.com> <20100316171931.GA19373@math.princeton.edu> <20100316173311.GE4499@Cauthorn.Fullrate> <201003170117.58328.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <20100317075649.GA2836@Cauthorn.Fullrate> <1268830696.6194.27.camel@localhost> <20100317130511.GB6612@Cauthorn.wlan.tnb.aau.dk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100317130511.GB6612@Cauthorn.wlan.tnb.aau.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Archives-Salt: c1cbe1f6-5f5e-49b9-85ab-90f6fd9571df X-Archives-Hash: 63ac19aace6592de182b39151c3ee726 On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 02:05:12PM +0100, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: > > I don't see any need for excuses, it sounds like fine common English to > > me, with the possible exception of a run-on "if". > > > > The full sentence was "I usually always look to see if Dale has been > > involved in a thread if HAL is mentioned" > Ah it's just using two different words that describe seeing something :-) > I like to think that my english is a little better. I mean it should have been "see if" or "look to see whether" (as far as I remember anyway :-)) > Huh, the "look to see" part, while inelegant and repetitive, is a common colloquialism, and I don't think was the problem. I was more thrown off by "usually always", which is either an oxymoron (if you take a strict view of the word "usually") or redundant (if you take "usually" to contain "always" as a subset). (Looks like I only have off-topic contributions to this thread.) W -- Willie W. Wong wwong@math.princeton.edu Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton