From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [OT] 'the the' in mails ...
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 02:50:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030819015043.GA6164@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030819012411.GA30871@www.13thfloor.at>
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 03:24:11AM +0200, Herbert P?tzl wrote:
> Please, could one of the native english
> speaker enlighten me about 'the the' ...
> 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 ...
>
> or is this just such a common typo? if so
> please tell me, and I will simply ignore it
> from now on ...
It's a moderately common typo, particularly common at end of line wraps.
It turns up quite often for reasons I can't explain.
There's likely some deep seated psychological reason
why people selectively blank one of the "the"'s out.
Dave
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Dave Jones http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-19 1:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-19 1:24 [OT] 'the the' in mails Herbert Pötzl
2003-08-19 1:50 ` Dave Jones [this message]
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
2003-08-19 16:19 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-08-20 1:59 ` Herbert Pötzl
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2003-08-19 17:11 John Bradford
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