Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:11:19 +1030 | From | David Newall <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] NET: fix wrong English expression in comments |
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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. :-)
As with spelling errors, corrections of this sort of thing are trivial and a waste of time. I'm opposed to patches like that; they add no value and could be said to remove "character"; if that's important.
Am American vulgarism seems appropriate: get over it.
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