From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Nikolai Weibull" Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/27] Documentation: Spelling fixes Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 19:59:04 +0200 Message-ID: References: <33723.2579863214$1149366476@news.gmane.org> <7vk67xenfe.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Horst.H.von.Brand@inf.utfsm.cl, git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jun 04 19:59:13 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FmwsZ-0006sr-0q for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 04 Jun 2006 19:59:11 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750834AbWFDR7F (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Jun 2006 13:59:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750839AbWFDR7F (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Jun 2006 13:59:05 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0102.google.com ([66.249.82.202]:10508 "EHLO wx-out-0102.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750834AbWFDR7E (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Jun 2006 13:59:04 -0400 Received: by wx-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id h28so613276wxd for ; Sun, 04 Jun 2006 10:59:04 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=eAluZtnlFZkbFmfeO14ynWQ2X5+FSN8sJh01sFSouOzrNWpuRBBALeVxc9NWvx9puIFisLCJgAyr/nBsTYLceSA74XZziBVbp2SdsS1GmN7PZObqI6VcNHWVj4zlTCJAjGh1YKF5bseYscwyQeY5N+RFQDGb9xHNASRz8VYRc/M= Received: by 10.70.23.6 with SMTP id 6mr1663820wxw; Sun, 04 Jun 2006 10:59:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.66.6 with HTTP; Sun, 4 Jun 2006 10:59:03 -0700 (PDT) To: "Junio C Hamano" In-Reply-To: <7vk67xenfe.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Content-Disposition: inline X-Google-Sender-Auth: 81ee5b553bc20ae6 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 6/4/06, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Most do not seem to be typoes, depending on where you learned > the language (XYZour vs XYZor; ok, Ok, and OK; ie vs i.e.). Where do you write "ie" instead of "i.e."? In Swedish, there has been a trend to remove dots from abbreviated expressions, but it seems people are returning to use dots. Personally, I find that dots make things a lot clearer. nikolai