From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: bcm2835: Fix grammar in help message
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 02:25:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201312060225.05221.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52A0D1E4.7070802@wwwdotorg.org>
On Thursday 05 December 2013, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 12/05/2013 12:17 PM, Stefan Weil wrote:
> > Replace "is use" by "is used" and remove a comma.
>
> Well, typo not grammar. The comma is correct though, at least in
> American English, which is what I tend to write these days (there's a
> comma before the and in a list of items).
Listen to the two German guys teaching you about your native language:
while you can do this in both British and American English for a list
(it's called the serial comma or the Oxford comma [1]), two nouns
separated by "and" are not a list, and this doesn't apply here.
Arnd
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma
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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>,
Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>,
linux-rpi-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: bcm2835: Fix grammar in help message
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 02:25:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201312060225.05221.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52A0D1E4.7070802@wwwdotorg.org>
On Thursday 05 December 2013, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 12/05/2013 12:17 PM, Stefan Weil wrote:
> > Replace "is use" by "is used" and remove a comma.
>
> Well, typo not grammar. The comma is correct though, at least in
> American English, which is what I tend to write these days (there's a
> comma before the and in a list of items).
Listen to the two German guys teaching you about your native language:
while you can do this in both British and American English for a list
(it's called the serial comma or the Oxford comma [1]), two nouns
separated by "and" are not a list, and this doesn't apply here.
Arnd
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-06 1:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-05 19:17 [PATCH] ARM: bcm2835: Fix grammar in help message Stefan Weil
2013-12-05 19:17 ` Stefan Weil
2013-12-05 19:20 ` Stephen Warren
2013-12-05 19:20 ` Stephen Warren
2013-12-06 1:25 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2013-12-06 1:25 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-12-07 4:41 ` Stephen Warren
2013-12-07 4:41 ` Stephen Warren
2013-12-07 4:57 ` Randy Dunlap
2013-12-07 4:57 ` Randy Dunlap
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