Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:45:15 +0100 | From | Johannes Weiner <> | Subject | Re: checkpatch warning of struct indentation |
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On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 01:35:43PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> In a lot of cases, (for Germans) "seit" can correctly be translated into > "since" but there are times that it just sounds funny.
It can only be translated to `since' when you mean a single point in the past and you have to use `for' when you refer to a whole period.
`since 29th august' vs. `for three years'
No?
> A common phrase from Germans are: > > I've been doing this since three years.
They slept in school :-)
Hannes
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