From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Matheus Izvekov <mizvekov@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: SubmittingPatches typo
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:02:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060320210209.GD31512@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <305c16960603201247p53718859ofa0e6d0355c9da1a@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 05:47:44PM -0300, Matheus Izvekov wrote:
> On 3/20/06, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> wrote:
> > >Hi!
> > >
> > >I'm not 100% sure with my english, but this seems wrong...
> > >
> > >Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
> > >
> > >-Linus Torvald's mail on the canonical patch format:
> > >+Linus Torvalds' mail on the canonical patch format:
> >
> > Neither. (It would have been correct in German, though.)
> > Correct is - in English:
> > Linus Torvalds's mail on the canonical patch format:
> >
>
> I agree with Pavel. i think its a rule in english that when the word
> ends with s, you dont repeat another s after the '
Nope. It's actually one of the amusing places where there *is* no rule.
Plurals that end in s always get just the apostrophe. But for singular
nouns that end in s, while I tend to think of "'s" as the default, some
people like to drop the final s if the result ("Sophocles's") would
otherwise sound awkward spoken aloud.
If you really can't stand the ambiguity, go for "Mail from Linus
Torvalds on the canonical patch format:".
--b.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-20 21:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-20 12:50 SubmittingPatches typo Pavel Machek
2006-03-20 19:57 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-20 20:47 ` Matheus Izvekov
2006-03-20 20:53 ` Chris Boot
2006-03-20 20:55 ` Pavel Machek
2006-03-20 20:56 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-20 21:03 ` Matheus Izvekov
2006-03-20 21:22 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-20 22:02 ` Nick Warne
2006-03-20 22:37 ` Chris Boot
2006-03-20 21:02 ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2006-03-21 11:16 ` Alan Cox
2006-03-21 17:45 ` [PATCH] " Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-22 9:32 ` 祁勇
2006-03-21 0:06 ` Nigel Cunningham
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