From: Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com>
To: Thomas Molina <tmolina@cablespeed.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [OT] Re: [2.6 patch] add an -Os config option
Date: 11 Aug 2003 22:14:28 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1060661668.8940.13.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308112149470.1795-100000@localhost.localdomain>
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 20:51, Thomas Molina wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> > On Monday 11 August 2003 17:19, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > >Hash: SHA1
> > >
> > >On Monday 11 August 2003 23:11, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > >> + The resulting kernel might be significantly slower.
> > >
> > >With my poor english knowledge I would say it should be
> > > "significant". Correct?
> > >
> > No, the quoted "significantly" version is the correct english useage
> > in this apparently present tense.
> >
> >
> Now you have hit one of my hot buttons :)
>
> Your use of useage is an incorrect use. Simply use use in the above
> sentence :)
Pedantry leakage causes no shrinkage of English use wreckage.
Steven
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-12 4:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-11 21:11 [2.6 patch] add an -Os config option Adrian Bunk
2003-08-11 21:19 ` Michael Buesch
2003-08-11 21:37 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-11 21:39 ` Christophe Saout
2003-08-11 21:41 ` Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
2003-08-12 1:29 ` Gene Heskett
2003-08-12 2:51 ` Thomas Molina
2003-08-12 4:14 ` Steven Cole [this message]
2003-08-12 15:25 ` [OT] " Timothy Miller
2003-08-12 14:48 ` Gene Heskett
2003-08-12 10:11 ` Michael Buesch
2003-08-12 14:42 ` Gene Heskett
2003-08-12 1:45 ` Warren Turkal
2003-08-11 22:20 ` Russell King
2003-08-12 7:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-08-12 15:43 ` Timothy Miller
2003-08-12 15:58 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-08-12 16:03 ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-08-12 13:35 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-12 15:45 ` Joe Korty
2003-08-12 18:03 ` Timothy Miller
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