From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: grammar patches not best use of talent Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:35:08 -0800 Message-ID: <7vtz84j29f.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <7vprito32u.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <87bpudp77t.fsf_-_@jidanni.org> <57518fd10901120054o5fbe78f8he0a54f6d62216ad5@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: jidanni@jidanni.org, git@vger.kernel.org To: jdelstrother@gmail.com X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jan 12 10:36:47 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 1LMJDu-0006mO-4G for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:36:42 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752199AbZALJfT (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:35:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751588AbZALJfS (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:35:18 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:43210 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751371AbZALJfR (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:35:17 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E18718F931; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:35:15 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0B14F8F92E; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:35:11 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <57518fd10901120054o5fbe78f8he0a54f6d62216ad5@mail.gmail.com> (jdelstrother@gmail.com's message of "Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:54:16 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 518B5EC8-E08C-11DD-B8A6-5720C92D7133-77302942!a-sasl-fastnet.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: jdelstrother@gmail.com writes: > Wait, "a handful X" is now a legitimate form of "a handful of X"? I > assumed they were due to non-native speakers. You assumed correctly. Jidanni is saying that _he_ thought about doing so, and then changed his mind. I personally do not know what the point of saying such things on the public list like this: you either just do it, or you don't, and you do not add noise to the traffic by saying you won't do this nor that. If you agree with me on the above point, just ignore the message you are responding to (I am not saying "just ignore _him_"; at least not yet), and if you are inclined to help, please don't let the message you are responding to discourage you. Thanks.