From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jdelstrother@gmail.com Subject: Re: grammar patches not best use of talent Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:54:16 +0000 Message-ID: <57518fd10901120054o5fbe78f8he0a54f6d62216ad5@mail.gmail.com> References: <7vprito32u.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <87bpudp77t.fsf_-_@jidanni.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: jidanni@jidanni.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jan 12 09:55:43 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LMIaF-0004Bp-1r for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:55:43 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751578AbZALIyT (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:54:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751459AbZALIyT (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:54:19 -0500 Received: from mail-bw0-f21.google.com ([209.85.218.21]:53705 "EHLO mail-bw0-f21.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750984AbZALIyS (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:54:18 -0500 Received: by bwz14 with SMTP id 14so31748789bwz.13 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:54:16 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=L6FGTYmYuELmKwos86dcsx5p4wLjcOfKab7WOOYMax4=; b=upd90vgHeEtKqUZHEekmuz5/eYBRGV/3p/fG8Y7dLiH2zwll3p7Hr01c7e+C8W63j3 BgMpQfXjCDM97AbkfQDEhTnxceP3F78YxAPwY3jLksXE9Kw3KWao17WpAko64oQz1b8b iuFROuNSxZw90esAsx0toNOBEKyGRqZyaeEuU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=ZIx3Iqd/E6Fq8TB+EFeYF5zmk5SyFtGtOdNJoLyA8i8ZnbkAfzVdgnlND1tMjnzOl5 brkRfZDM91LHAZmBZzhLAjyaIpfzwmLfby8Lz6GYAn55G6Obfz/i42XXq79CmnAP77an 8Hu9LmaKYGtryeHqsKk7+nYl+61ZLb55BxyeI= Received: by 10.223.116.18 with SMTP id k18mr20753891faq.104.1231750456352; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:54:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.105.9 with HTTP; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:54:16 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87bpudp77t.fsf_-_@jidanni.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Wait, "a handful X" is now a legitimate form of "a handful of X"? I assumed they were due to non-native speakers. On 1/12/09, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote: > I've decided to back out of my plan to patch grammar. > $ perl -nwle '/\w+\s+handful.*/i&& print $&' Documentation/*|sort -uf > a handful commits on top of that, > A handful documentation fixes. > A handful documentation updates. > a handful example hooks are copied in the > a handful fixes to run it > a handful of examples: > A handful of sample hooks are installed when > a handful pack-objects changes to help you cope better > a handful small fixes to gitweb. > a handful the real changes in non-zero > first handful of characters, show the full > only handful hexdigits prefix. > only handful hexdigits prefix. Non default number of > only handful hexdigits prefix. This is > > At first some of the above lines irritated me, but who am I to say > that English must be said like my mom says it, and is never allowed to > evolve further. Nope, I'll stick to correcting 2+2=3 type things. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >