Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:04:02 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] NET: fix wrong English expression in comments |
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> "Don't add nothing," is not a colloquialism; it's just bad grammar. The
It's a matter of dialect. For historical reasons English emerged from a mix of languages and cultures (even within the UK). In some of the originating languages and areas a double negative is emphatic in others it negates the negation. Thus it is a bad idea when using globally - as nobody is quite sure what you mean.
> 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.
You may be so opposed, but they can be very problematic to non-English speakers trying to use a dictionary or to understand if they are seeing a typo or an unknown word: thus we do fix them. This is why we have the trivial patch maintainer for such small fixes.
TRIVIAL PATCHES P: Jiri Kosina M: trivial@kernel.org L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org T: git kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial.git S: Maintained
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