From: Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel@redhat.com>
To: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>, Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: peter.maydell@linaro.org, ehabkost@redhat.com, afaerber@suse.de
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2] MAINTAINERS: add machine section
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 19:48:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56BF6C86.7010301@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56BF6A38.7040603@redhat.com>
On 02/13/2016 07:39 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 02/13/2016 01:10 AM, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
>> On 02/12/16 20:49, Marcel Apfelbaum wrote:
>>> Eduardo and me will maintain it.
>>
>> I suggest "Eduardo and I".
>>
>> Eric? :)
>
> Correct. In English, if you are including yourself in a list, it's good
> form to list the first-person pronoun last; then the next rule to
> remember is to use the same pronoun that you would use in isolation
> without the list. Since that would be "I will maintain", it turns into
> "Eduardo and I will maintain". Conversely, "give maintainer duties to
> me" would become "give maintainer duties to Eduardo and me".
>
> Unfortunately, even among native English speakers, it is a rather common
> mistake to hear "something and me" used where "I" would have been correct.
>
> [Looks like I've made a name for myself in trying to paraphrase native
> English rules...]
>
Thanks for yet another English lesson :)
Maybe the maintainer can tweak it before taking it.
Thanks,
Marcel
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-13 17:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-12 19:49 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2] MAINTAINERS: add machine section Marcel Apfelbaum
2016-02-13 8:10 ` Laszlo Ersek
2016-02-13 17:39 ` Eric Blake
2016-02-13 17:48 ` Marcel Apfelbaum [this message]
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