From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B56D21382C5 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2018 22:45:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F2EC7E0996; Thu, 1 Feb 2018 22:45:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from very.loosely.org (very.loosely.org [173.255.215.69]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8AA44E0900 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2018 22:45:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.8.78.6] (port=43034 helo=matica.foolinux.mooo.com) by ahiker.mooo.com with esmtp (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1ehNbf-0005Rz-8F for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2018 14:45:23 -0800 Received: from itz by matica.foolinux.mooo.com with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1ehNbX-0000fb-Of for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2018 14:45:15 -0800 Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 14:45:15 -0800 From: Ian Zimmerman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: A little help for non-native English speakers Message-ID: <20180201224515.rgpel55ll7co7gmu@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <2979311.yKovLQH099@peak> <20180201185530.592dfe59@digimed.co.uk> 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: <20180201185530.592dfe59@digimed.co.uk> X-Loosely-Listed: yes User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170707-dirty (1.8.3) X-Archives-Salt: dd2fd20f-1701-4448-8f18-51fd552c459e X-Archives-Hash: 6a409d1cba61ff3c21d01a1dcf044b1a On 2018-02-01 18:55, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > I figured that would make the example more confusion which would > > defeat the purpose. > And don't get me started on people using "which" when they should be using > "that". > > (In this case, which is correct but it should have a preceding comma). One could also use "that" with a preceding semicolon. -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. To reply privately _only_ on Usenet, fetch the TXT record for the domain.