Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759427AbZAMXXy (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:23:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755169AbZAMXXk (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:23:40 -0500 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:58211 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755158AbZAMXXi (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:23:38 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: David Newall Cc: Daolong Wang , David Miller , 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 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:11:19 +1030." <496C53AF.3080901@davidnewall.com> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1231888978_3146P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:22:58 -0500 Message-ID: <25981.1231888978@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1308 Lines: 36 --==_Exmh_1231888978_3146P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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. --==_Exmh_1231888978_3146P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFJbSJScC3lWbTT17ARAvNJAKCQBl4shAHDDmr2UGrWcS2oQR/d9wCg1VMw HLSBdbZdVRNW8LKW9h2xBEw= =Mgx2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1231888978_3146P-- -- 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/