From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: Alex Bligh - linux-kernel <linux-kernel@alex.org.uk>
Cc: Mike Harrold <mharrold@cas.org>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
torvalds@transmeta.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] More pedantry.
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 02:17:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010714021752.A15351@pcep-jamie.cern.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200107122058.QAA15963@mah21awu.cas.org> <521750299.994976214@[169.254.45.213]>
In-Reply-To: <521750299.994976214@[169.254.45.213]>; from linux-kernel@alex.org.uk on Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:16:55PM +0100
"None of my fish is edible" and "none of my fish are edible" mean quite
different things in English. Both forms are used.
"None of my tomatoes is fresh" does _not_ sound correct to the fluent
English speaker, however.
Errata are like tomatoes.
:-) from none other than...
-- Jamie
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-14 0:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-12 10:03 David Woodhouse
2001-07-12 20:49 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-07-12 20:58 ` Mike Harrold
2001-07-12 21:10 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-07-12 21:26 ` Mike Harrold
2001-07-13 5:42 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-07-12 21:13 ` lost
2001-07-12 21:16 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-07-14 0:17 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
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