Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Nov 2002 19:15:31 -0800 (PST) | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Module loader against 2.5.46: 8/9 |
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On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Rusty Russell wrote:
| In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.1021106113408.24531B-100000@gatekeeper.tmr.com> you w | rite: | > On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Rusty Russell wrote: | > > No. I don't think that my original version wasn't clear, nor do I | > > have time to negate every suggestion, no matter how well meaning or | > > not, even if I had no better things to do, which does not seem likely, | > > does it not? | > | > Please don't take this personally, but you just used another double | > negative in your response. | | Did I? Not that I'm not sorry, but I just didn't realize my lack of | clarity was causing confusion. I shall take your words to heart.
So you did it again, this time on purpose, right? ;) ("Not that I'm not sorry")
| > Now you may think that way, and talk that way, but a lot of people | > who use Linux are not native speakers of English, and from | > experience I suggest that the complex gramatical constructs in all | > the help stuff should be avoided. | | I'd never have thought of that myself, but you're right. Even among | our peers on this mailing list, for example, the nuances of English | sometimes go astray. | | I will try to ensure my writing is straigtforward and impossible to | misunderstand. | | But thankyou for your insight! | Rusty. | --
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