linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Improve Documentation/stable_api

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Message-Id: <1201721578.4037.39.camel@cinder.waste.org>
Date:	Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:32:58 -0600
From:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
To:	Heikki Orsila <shdl@...alwe.fi>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt


On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 16:14 +0200, Heikki Orsila wrote:

> > > Imo,
> > > "same exact C compiler" is just bad language, because C compilers are 
> > > always "exact". "exactly same C compiler" would do.
> > 
> > No, "exactly same C compiler" doesn't parse well in English.
> 
> "Same exact C compiler" does not mean what you try to say.

Actually, it does. It is perfectly idiomatic English.

"Use the exact same C compiler." -> OK, idiomatic
"Use the same exact C compiler." -> OK, idiomatic
"Use the exactly same C compiler." -> very awkward
"Use exactly the same C compiler." -> formally correct

http://www.bartleby.com/68/24/2324.html
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