linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ARM: bcm2835: Fix grammar in help message

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Message-Id: <201312060225.05221.arnd@arndb.de>
Date:	Fri, 6 Dec 2013 02:25:04 +0100
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>,
	Stefan Weil <sw@...lnetz.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Jiri Kosina <trivial@...nel.org>,
	linux-rpi-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: bcm2835: Fix grammar in help message

On Thursday 05 December 2013, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 12/05/2013 12:17 PM, Stefan Weil wrote:
> > Replace "is use" by "is used" and remove a comma.
> 
> Well, typo not grammar. The comma is correct though, at least in
> American English, which is what I tend to write these days (there's a
> comma before the and in a list of items).

Listen to the two German guys teaching you about your native language:
while you can do this in both British and American English for a list
(it's called the serial comma or the Oxford comma [1]), two nouns 
separated by "and" are not a list, and this doesn't apply here.

	Arnd

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma
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