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On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:57:21 -0600 Jim Cromie wrote:

> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 12:42:28 -0600
> > Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Fixup patches agains next -mm would be suitable.  Please keep them
> > super-short: basically one-patch-per-review-comment.  That way I can easily
> > instertion-sort the patches into place and we retain a nice patch series.
> >
> >   
> OK.  Just so Im clear, Ill patch against the tail of the set (ie -mm1), 
> and you'll push them forward into the

WTH?  "you'll" ??

> series as close as possible to where the blunder was made ?  (and less 
> close for conflicts )
> >> Ive
> >>     
> >
> > Apostrophe aversion?
> >   
> 
> Its PFL.  Its also IMO a trend in the language.  "Its" (the contraction) 
> has dropped the '
> IIUC, its (with the apostrophe) now only for possession, forex: Its 
> bigger than the sum of it's parts.
> Im just taking that to excess, everywhere its applicable ;-)

and you have it totally bassackwards too.  Maybe you meant to
do that, a la Rusty.

Possessive "its" did not and does not use apostrophe.
and "forex" is the Foreign Exchange market (or a brand of
prophylactic).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PFL ??
---
~Randy