From: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
To: Daolong Wang <ahlongxp@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
bhutchings@solarflare.com, lizf@cn.fujitsu.com,
qhfeng.kernel@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET: fix wrong English expression in comments
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:11:19 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <496C53AF.3080901@davidnewall.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dc84318c0901122216s77bae26eo2dd36c4a0ee35177@mail.gmail.com>
Daolong Wang wrote:
> The patch will make sense for some people. I was puzzled about the
> double-negative for quite a while.
>
"Don't add nothing," is not a colloquialism; it's just bad grammar. The
meaning is that you must not add no thing, therefore that you must add
something. It is a common error amongst English speakers, even amongst
those who speak good, but. :-)
As with spelling errors, corrections of this sort of thing are trivial
and a waste of time. I'm opposed to patches like that; they add no
value and could be said to remove "character"; if that's important.
Am American vulgarism seems appropriate: get over it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-13 8:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-11 18:36 [PATCH] NET: fix wrong English expression in comments Qinghuang Feng
2009-01-12 1:05 ` Li Zefan
2009-01-12 1:39 ` Ben Hutchings
2009-01-13 5:53 ` David Miller
2009-01-13 6:16 ` Daolong Wang
2009-01-13 8:41 ` David Newall [this message]
2009-01-13 9:04 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-13 12:09 ` David Newall
2009-01-13 23:22 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-01-13 23:30 ` Randy Dunlap
[not found] ` <6b1ba94c0901122336r511fa316o5f520a8d2d9d6e0@mail.gmail.com>
2009-01-13 7:44 ` David Miller
2009-01-13 7:56 ` Li Zefan
2009-01-13 7:57 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-01-13 8:52 ` Oliver Hartkopp
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