From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To: "Ahelenia Ziemiańska" <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>, Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>,
Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com>,
linux-sound@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ALSA: emu10k1: fix "for/take a while" typos
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2025 17:53:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o6tsvy7s.wl-tiwai@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6fvir6xkdvdu4pfo7hcv7zucaxosxjqb5t7gklovzcglnfkvc7@tarta.nabijaczleweli.xyz>
On Thu, 10 Jul 2025 17:44:20 +0200,
Ahelenia Ziemiańska wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 04:28:00PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > On Thu, 03 Jul 2025 20:21:29 +0200,
> > Ahelenia Ziemiańska wrote:
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
> > > ---
> > > v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/h2ieddqja5jfrnuh3mvlxt6njrvp352t5rfzp2cvnrufop6tch@tarta.nabijaczleweli.xyz/t/#u
> > Well, "awhile" is a proper word, AFAIK.
> Yes, but these two uses are clearly typos of "a while";
> "awhile" is used differently: you could do
> - /* Step 3: Wait for awhile; XXX We can't get away with this
> + /* Step 3: Wait awhile; XXX We can't get away with this
> for example.
That may be true from the strict grammatic POV, but "for awhile" is
seen relatively frequently and loosely perceived.
Takashi
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-07-10 15:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-07-03 18:21 [PATCH v2] ALSA: emu10k1: fix "for/take a while" typos Ahelenia Ziemiańska
2025-07-10 14:28 ` Takashi Iwai
2025-07-10 15:44 ` Ahelenia Ziemiańska
2025-07-10 15:53 ` Takashi Iwai [this message]
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