From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Randy Dunlap Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET: fix wrong English expression in comments Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:30:31 -0800 Message-ID: <496D2417.4030705@xenotime.net> References: <496a3c51.09876e0a.03fe.7e80@mx.google.com> <496A9753.80802@cn.fujitsu.com> <1231724358.2674.13.camel@hashbaz.i.decadent.org.uk> <20090112.215320.197154233.davem@davemloft.net> <496C53AF.3080901@davidnewall.com> <25981.1231888978@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Newall , Daolong Wang , David Miller , bhutchings@solarflare.com, lizf@cn.fujitsu.com, qhfeng.kernel@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Return-path: Received: from xenotime.net ([72.52.64.118]:60968 "HELO xenotime.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753238AbZAMXap (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:30:45 -0500 Received: from ::ffff:98.99.121.230 ([98.99.121.230]) by xenotime.net for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:30:42 -0800 In-Reply-To: <25981.1231888978@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:11:19 +1030, David Newall said: >> 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. :-) > > Those of us who have worked with weakly-typed languages who have coded > stuff like 'X + 0.0' to cast X from string to floating point know all > too well that sometimes, adding nothing is in fact what you want to do. That didn't sway the argument^W discussion IMO. for the patch: Acked-by: Randy Dunlap // :) ~Randy