From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "Frédéric Weisbecker" <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
"Andy Whitcroft" <apw@canonical.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: checkpatch warning of struct indentation
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:45:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090113144515.GA5547@cmpxchg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0901121323000.22796@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 01:35:43PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> In a lot of cases, (for Germans) "seit" can correctly be translated into
> "since" but there are times that it just sounds funny.
It can only be translated to `since' when you mean a single point in
the past and you have to use `for' when you refer to a whole period.
`since 29th august' vs. `for three years'
No?
> A common phrase from Germans are:
>
> I've been doing this since three years.
They slept in school :-)
Hannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-13 14:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-12 17:57 checkpatch warning of struct indentation Steven Rostedt
2009-01-12 18:09 ` Frédéric Weisbecker
2009-01-12 18:35 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-12 19:34 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-01-13 14:45 ` Johannes Weiner [this message]
2009-01-13 14:54 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-13 15:23 ` Johannes Weiner
2009-01-12 18:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-12 18:51 ` Andy Whitcroft
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