From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:53396 "EHLO plane.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753352AbbDCIdb (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Apr 2015 04:33:31 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ydx2f-0002ks-Ps for linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 03 Apr 2015 10:33:30 +0200 Received: from ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.231.22.224]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 03 Apr 2015 10:33:29 +0200 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 03 Apr 2015 10:33:29 +0200 To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] btrfs-progs: Doc: Add warning and note on btrfs-convert. Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2015 08:33:23 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <1428024075-10211-1-git-send-email-quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com> <551E3C06.9040305@cn.fujitsu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Qu Wenruo posted on Fri, 03 Apr 2015 15:06:46 +0800 as excerpted: > It seems my English is really poor... :( I think the usual response is "Better than my Chinese!" =:^) Seriously, tho, it's better than many native English speakers/writers as well, good enough I'd not guess different were it not for the name and the cn hint in your email address. Meanwhile, while it was a sentence fragment, in less formal settings (such as this list) it would have passed more or less unnoticed, particularly since the meaning was so obvious that not even a word needed changed, only a bit of punctuation. In more formal setting such as btrfs documentation, however, a sentence fragment of that sort will trigger the reader's misparse detector, thus causing them to pause and go back and reread, slower, to see where their natural parsing went wrong. As such, it brings attention to something that would otherwise be fairly minor. So better to fix it now and not have all those people stumbling over it later. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman