From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: power/disk.c: small fixups
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 12:09:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan.2004.10.24.10.09.16.787641@smurf.noris.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cone.1098338726.500663.12209.502@pc.kolivas.org>
Hi, Con Kolivas wrote:
> "it's" means it belongs to, so therefore "it's" is correct usage here.
Wrong. "it's" is a contraction of "it is".
Nothing more, nothing less.
This usage has become so bad that my brain defaults to flagging the
apostrophized version of *anything* as wrong. :-/
Consider yourself lucky, though; in German the problem is even worse.
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Matthias Urlichs | {M:U} IT Design @ m-u-it.de | smurf@smurf.noris.de
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-24 10:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
2004-10-24 14:17 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-10-26 6:12 Clayton Weaver
2004-10-26 8:55 ` David Weinehall
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