From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Mike Harrold <mharrold@cas.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@alex.org.uk, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
torvalds@transmeta.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] More pedantry.
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 23:10:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010712231055.A5794@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <520087372.994974550@[169.254.45.213]> <200107122058.QAA15963@mah21awu.cas.org>
In-Reply-To: <200107122058.QAA15963@mah21awu.cas.org>; from mharrold@cas.org on Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 04:58:45PM -0400
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 04:58:45PM -0400, Mike Harrold wrote:
> >
> > > - * None of the E1AP-E3AP erratas are visible to the user.
> > > + * None of the E1AP-E3AP errata are visible to the user.
> >
> > If you want real pedantry, I think you mean:
> >
> > > + * None of the E1AP-E3AP errata is visible to the user.
> >
> > ('none' is singular - read 'not one')
> >
> > ... several times within this patch.
>
> No, he was right the first time. Errata is plural. Erratum is the
> singular.
Yes, but the subject of the sentence is 'none'. Thus the verb should be
in singular: None of them *is* visible.
But perhaps my version of english is different from yours. I learned
mine from textbooks.
--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-12 21:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-12 10:03 [PATCH] More pedantry David Woodhouse
2001-07-12 20:49 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-07-12 20:58 ` Mike Harrold
2001-07-12 21:10 ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
2001-07-12 21:26 ` Mike Harrold
2001-07-13 5:42 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-07-12 21:13 ` lost
2001-07-12 21:16 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-07-14 0:17 ` Jamie Lokier
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