From: Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@gmx.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] (A nice illustration of Gentoo)
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:08:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120217200857.GC19619@eisen.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120217120730.0f35f6fe@marcec.huntemann.uni-oldenburg.de>
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On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:07:30PM +0100, Marc Joliet wrote:
> Am Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:29:40 +0700
> schrieb Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>:
>
> > On Feb 17, 2012 8:16 AM, "Peter Humphrey" <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thursday 16 February 2012 04:07:38 Pandu Poluan wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > I am one of those guys who are against initrd/initramfs :-P
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Congratulations! The first correct use of "one of those who" I've seen in
> > several years. If only Americans would speak English!
> > >
> >
> > ???
> >
> > I'm not aware that there can be a 'wrong' usage of "one of those who"...
>
> I think he means "one of those who *are*" vs. "one of those who *is*".
Actually, the *is* variant would be (syntactically) correct, too. In that case
he would be "you know, just one of those guys", who coincidentally is also
against initrd/initramfs.
Gosh, don't you just love languages and their syntax. :o)
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-15 10:58 [gentoo-user] [OT] (A nice illustration of Gentoo) Pandu Poluan
2012-02-15 12:46 ` Mark Knecht
2012-02-15 14:42 ` mike
2012-02-16 4:07 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-02-16 15:13 ` mike
2012-02-17 1:13 ` Peter Humphrey
2012-02-17 1:29 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-02-17 11:07 ` Marc Joliet
2012-02-17 11:41 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-02-17 20:08 ` Frank Steinmetzger [this message]
2012-02-17 2:03 ` Mark Knecht
2012-02-17 6:26 ` Hari Purnama
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