Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Aug 2003 09:10:12 -0700 | From | Jonathan Lundell <> | Subject | Re: [OT] 'the the' in mails ... |
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At 2:32pm +0100 8/19/03, Alan Cox wrote: >On Maw, 2003-08-19 at 02:24, Herbert Pötzl wrote: >> I know this is absolutely off topic, but >> about 30 threads, in the last two months, >> on lkml contain this strange construct, >> and I'm worried that I miss something very >> important ... > >Its a very common typo, especially at the end of a line.
...where for some reason it tends to be invisible.
A quick scan of some list messages suggests that it's also a fairly common typo for "to the", "that the", and the like. A case of the brain running on ahead of the fingers, I suppose. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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