From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from fep12.mx.upcmail.net ([62.179.121.32]:41047 "EHLO fep12.mx.upcmail.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753001Ab3FFFES (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jun 2013 01:04:18 -0400 Received: from edge04.upcmail.net ([192.168.13.239]) by viefep12-int.chello.at (InterMail vM.8.01.05.05 201-2260-151-110-20120111) with ESMTP id <20130606050415.JDCJ2059.viefep12-int.chello.at@edge04.upcmail.net> for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2013 07:04:15 +0200 Received: from album.bayer.uni.cx (album.bayer.uni.cx [IPv6:2002:5e71:d886:1:5246:5dff:fe8e:a186]) by router.bayer.uni.cx (Postfix) with SMTP id 6E1273BD53 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2013 07:04:13 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 07:04:12 +0200 From: Petr Pisar To: Util-Linux Subject: Re: [patch] for "Mistakes in messages" reported by Petr Pisar Message-ID: <20130606050412.GA3632@album.bayer.uni.cx> References: <1370462889.27341.140661240351977.05B18AA0@webmail.messagingengine.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="xHFwDpU9dbj6ez1V" In-Reply-To: <1370462889.27341.140661240351977.05B18AA0@webmail.messagingengine.com> Sender: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --xHFwDpU9dbj6ez1V Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 10:08:09PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: >=20 > Some of the things he reported were already fixed, and one thing > is not an error, I think: "Partition overlap on the disk." -- here the > word "Partition" is an adjective and "overlap" a noun. "Partitions > overlap on the disk." doesn't make it any clearer, in my opinion. >=20 My English is terrible, but since when `partion' is an adjective ? My syntactical parser says: Partitions[subject,noun,plural] overlap[predicate,verb] on the disk[adverbi= al, adverb]. Your explanation is missing a predicate in the sentence. -- Petr --xHFwDpU9dbj6ez1V Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iF4EABEIAAYFAlGwGEwACgkQEsnFx2fG+qKgLwEAmSOXKSz1xQSrMRoxY2ndIzwb uk0Keep/H5tfcOnBxDAA/j6cxiZyFYeqT4Q766B4mni2DLSm6yrxcTsOLM1woGJr =kdU4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --xHFwDpU9dbj6ez1V--