From: Jonathan Lundell <linux@lundell-bros.com>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [OT] 'the the' in mails ...
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 09:10:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p06001a95bb67fbc38747@[207.213.214.37]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1061299931.30565.40.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk>
At 2:32pm +0100 8/19/03, Alan Cox wrote:
>On Maw, 2003-08-19 at 02:24, Herbert Pötzl wrote:
>> I know this is absolutely off topic, but
>> about 30 threads, in the last two months,
>> on lkml contain this strange construct,
>> and I'm worried that I miss something very
>> important ...
>
>Its a very common typo, especially at the end of a line.
...where for some reason it tends to be invisible.
A quick scan of some list messages suggests that
it's also a fairly common typo for "to the",
"that the", and the like. A case of the brain
running on ahead of the fingers, I suppose.
--
/Jonathan Lundell.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-19 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-19 1:24 Herbert Pötzl
2003-08-19 1:50 ` Dave Jones
2003-08-19 2:29 ` Kurt Wall
2003-08-19 2:50 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-08-19 13:32 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-19 16:10 ` Jonathan Lundell [this message]
2003-08-19 16:19 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-08-20 1:59 ` Herbert Pötzl
2003-08-19 17:11 John Bradford
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