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From: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
To: "Måns Rullgård" <mru@inprovide.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Matthias-Christian Ott" <matthias.christian@tiscali.de>
Subject: Re: PATCH: "Ok" -> "OK" in messages
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 17:08:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200505281708.54722.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yw1xvf53mtkr.fsf@ford.inprovide.com>

On Saturday 28 May 2005 13:19, you wrote:
> Matthias-Christian Ott <matthias.christian@tiscali.de> writes:
> > Måns Rullgård wrote:
> >> [..]
> >> "unusually high" rings better in my ears.
> >
> > It's an adjective not an adverb.
>
> It depends on how the sentence should be interpreted.  Is it "unusual
> (high IRQ latencies)", or "(unusually high) IRQ latencies"?

You're right, it's "(unusually high) IRQ latencies". What we have now is 
grammatically incorrect.

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

personal:   alistair()devzero!co!uk
university: s0348365()sms!ed!ac!uk
student:    CS/CSim Undergraduate
contact:    1F2 55 South Clerk Street,
            Edinburgh. EH8 9PP.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-28 16:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-28 11:13 Sean M. Burke
2005-05-28 11:29 ` David Woodhouse
2005-05-28 12:54   ` Pozsár Balázs
2005-06-23 16:30     ` Tim Bird
2005-06-23 16:53       ` Pozsár Balázs
2005-06-23 18:32         ` Tim Bird
2005-06-23 23:33       ` Alan Cox
2005-05-28 11:53 ` Måns Rullgård
2005-05-28 12:12   ` Matthias-Christian Ott
2005-05-28 12:19     ` Måns Rullgård
2005-05-28 16:08       ` Alistair John Strachan [this message]
2005-05-28 13:14 ` cutaway
2005-05-28 12:29   ` Måns Rullgård
2005-05-28 21:02   ` Lee Revell
2005-05-29  3:04     ` cutaway

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