Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:30:31 -0800 | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] NET: fix wrong English expression in comments |
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Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.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@xenotime.net> // :)
~Randy
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