From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Chris Boot <bootc@bootc.net>
Cc: Matheus Izvekov <mizvekov@gmail.com>,
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: SubmittingPatches typo
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 21:55:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060320205546.GH24523@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <441F1650.7070906@bootc.net>
On Po 20-03-06 20:53:36, Chris Boot wrote:
> Matheus Izvekov wrote:
> >On 3/20/06, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> wrote:
> >>>Hi!
> >>>
> >>>I'm not 100% sure with my english, but this seems wrong...
> >>>
> >>>Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
> >>>
> >>>-Linus Torvald's mail on the canonical patch format:
> >>>+Linus Torvalds' mail on the canonical patch format:
> >>Neither. (It would have been correct in German, though.)
> >>Correct is - in English:
> >> Linus Torvalds's mail on the canonical patch format:
> >>
> >
> >I agree with Pavel. i think its a rule in english that when the word
> >ends with s, you dont repeat another s after the '
>
> When a word ends with an 's' *because it is plural* (i.e. the s denotes
> plurality) then you omit the second 's'. If the word ends with 's' in
> singular form you do the whole whack: ..s's.
>
> I can't quote a source for this, but it's something I've known for years.
Ok, if you are native speaker, I trust you. Could you send a patch to
akpm?
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-20 20:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-20 12:50 Pavel Machek
2006-03-20 19:57 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-20 20:47 ` Matheus Izvekov
2006-03-20 20:53 ` Chris Boot
2006-03-20 20:55 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2006-03-20 20:56 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-20 21:03 ` Matheus Izvekov
2006-03-20 21:22 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-20 22:02 ` Nick Warne
2006-03-20 22:37 ` Chris Boot
2006-03-20 21:02 ` J. Bruce Fields
2006-03-21 11:16 ` Alan Cox
2006-03-21 17:45 ` [PATCH] " Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-22 9:32 ` 祁勇
2006-03-21 0:06 ` Nigel Cunningham
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