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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 16:23:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090113152346.GA5892@cmpxchg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0901130952210.31098@gandalf.stny.rr.com>

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 09:54:13AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > A common phrase from Germans are:
> > > 
> > >   I've been doing this since three years.
> > 
> > They slept in school :-)
> 
> Perhaps they asked, "May I lend an English grammar book?" when they meant 
> to say "May I borrow an English grammar book?" :-)

More likely they asked `may I become an English grammar book'.

German `etw. bekommen' translates to `to get sth'

> -- Steve

	Hannes


  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-13 15:24 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
2009-01-13 14:54       ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-13 15:23         ` Johannes Weiner [this message]
2009-01-12 18:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-12 18:51 ` Andy Whitcroft

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