Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262194AbUJZIzx (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 04:55:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262197AbUJZIzx (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 04:55:53 -0400 Received: from khan.acc.umu.se ([130.239.18.139]:46246 "EHLO khan.acc.umu.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262194AbUJZIzs (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 04:55:48 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 10:55:44 +0200 From: David Weinehall To: Clayton Weaver Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: power/disk.c: small fixups Message-ID: <20041026085544.GF1308@khan.acc.umu.se> Mail-Followup-To: Clayton Weaver , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20041026061229.E49AB4BDA9@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041026061229.E49AB4BDA9@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Accept-Language: Swedish, English X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7ACE 0FB0 7A74 F994 9B36 E1D1 D14E 8526 DC47 CA16 X-GPG-Key: http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/files/pubkey_dc47ca16.gpg.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 980 Lines: 29 On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 01:12:29AM -0500, Clayton Weaver wrote: [snip] > So, if "it's" is not a possessive, then it's a > contraction, where the ' represents one or > more omitted letters. (No comment on the "it has" > variant, which I cannot remember ever seeing > in practice but can think of no reason for ruling > out as definitively incorrect usage.) Never seen "it has" contracted to "it's" in practice? Hey, don't you ever listen to The Beatles?! o/~ It's been a hard day's night o/~ [snip] Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall /) Northern lights wander (\ // Maintainer of the v2.0 kernel // Dance across the winter sky // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ (/ Full colour fire (/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/