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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Module loader against 2.5.46: 8/9
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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~Randy
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