netdev - Re: [PATCH] NET: fix wrong English expression in comments

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Date:	Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:22:58 -0500
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	David Newall <davidn@...idnewall.com>
Cc:	Daolong Wang <ahlongxp@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, bhutchings@...arflare.com,
	lizf@...fujitsu.com, qhfeng.kernel@...il.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET: fix wrong English expression in comments

On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:11:19 +1030, David Newall said:
> Daolong Wang wrote:
> > The patch will make sense for some people. I was puzzled about the
> > double-negative for quite a while.
> >   
> 
> "Don't add nothing," is not a colloquialism; it's just bad grammar.  The
> meaning is that you must not add no thing, therefore that you must add
> something.  It is a common error amongst English speakers, even amongst
> those who speak good, but.  :-)

Those of us who have worked with weakly-typed languages who have coded
stuff like 'X + 0.0' to cast X from string to floating point know all
too well that sometimes, adding nothing is in fact what you want to do.

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