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

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Message-ID: <496D2417.4030705@xenotime.net>
Date:	Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:30:31 -0800
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
To:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
CC:	David Newall <davidn@...idnewall.com>,
	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

Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> 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.

That didn't sway the argument^W discussion IMO.

for the patch:  Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net> // :)


~Randy
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