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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

  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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