From: David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>
To: Clayton Weaver <cgweav@email.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: power/disk.c: small fixups
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 10:55:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041026085544.GF1308@khan.acc.umu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041026061229.E49AB4BDA9@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com>
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 01:12:29AM -0500, Clayton Weaver wrote:
[snip]
> So, if "it's" is not a possessive, then it's a
> contraction, where the ' represents one or
> more omitted letters. (No comment on the "it has"
> variant, which I cannot remember ever seeing
> in practice but can think of no reason for ruling
> out as definitively incorrect usage.)
Never seen "it has" contracted to "it's" in practice?
Hey, don't you ever listen to The Beatles?!
o/~ It's been a hard day's night o/~
[snip]
Regards: David
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-26 6:12 Clayton Weaver
2004-10-26 8:55 ` David Weinehall [this message]
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2004-10-20 18:16 Pavel Machek
2004-10-20 19:37 ` Tim Cambrant
2004-10-20 19:44 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-21 6:05 ` Con Kolivas
2004-10-21 6:24 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-21 19:31 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-10-24 10:09 ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-10-24 14:17 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
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