From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752004Ab3LFBZt (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Dec 2013 20:25:49 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.8]:49768 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751580Ab3LFBZq (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Dec 2013 20:25:46 -0500 From: Arnd Bergmann To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: bcm2835: Fix grammar in help message Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 02:25:04 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/3.8.0-22-generic; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Stephen Warren , Stefan Weil , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Russell King , Jiri Kosina , linux-rpi-kernel@lists.infradead.org References: <1386271060-2375-1-git-send-email-sw@weilnetz.de> <52A0D1E4.7070802@wwwdotorg.org> In-Reply-To: <52A0D1E4.7070802@wwwdotorg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201312060225.05221.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:c+oQP26QgDEq711k3dldlZd7FgAZVtG3A4SkXsfXmxx PsdxIj476wE3TELiFmWq2u6BjKkg1pNLfA7CWupvn7bsLhw47Q i8ZPai2Rm6fyl0w42M7bJyxrGOQwvKZGqII2UuA1FZjlrqr9hJ KlAqAAgbi7AfxrXVy6xygEJlA7aDwr1XhtPLcbrOxxSFaD1Lho r0h18DvIMyskmHTyLODPZ5onZDzYfKZ6NlppVg4hSBUzMkZCvk RACi9MuN4biPtYT+AnkcASqE/aRunnopKm1ECkMSTt6RlgPHwM Aegtr61nImslwk0+f/7CrVyE4nhfcfjaGTqGdu9i9XNjZhke3f j5mmZ2Gr8TE7gWib8xmE= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 05 December 2013, Stephen Warren wrote: > On 12/05/2013 12:17 PM, Stefan Weil wrote: > > Replace "is use" by "is used" and remove a comma. > > Well, typo not grammar. The comma is correct though, at least in > American English, which is what I tend to write these days (there's a > comma before the and in a list of items). Listen to the two German guys teaching you about your native language: while you can do this in both British and American English for a list (it's called the serial comma or the Oxford comma [1]), two nouns separated by "and" are not a list, and this doesn't apply here. Arnd [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma