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On Wednesday 10 May 2017 10:11:36 Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 10:09:26AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote |
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> > On Tuesday 09 May 2017 14:29:16 Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> > > It's a feature, not a bug. <G> There's a news item being worked on in |
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> > > the Gentoo dev list. I'd normally just link to a mail archive, but |
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> > > it's |
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> > > too new to have been archived yet. Here's a copy of the proposed news |
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> > > item. |
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> > (Quoting order changed.) |
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> > Sorry, Walter, but I just couldn't let this go. Reading it hurt too |
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> > much. |
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> > English grammar has very few hard-and-fast rules, but one is absolutely |
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> > sacrosanct: every verb agrees in number with its subject. If I'd been |
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> > guilty |
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> > of this at school I'd have earned myself a stiff rebuke: |
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> I was merely quoting the post verbatim. Don't shoot the messanger. |
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No, I didn't mean to. I know it wasn't your wording. |
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> I hereby volunteer you to join the Gentoo-dev list and help clean up the |
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> grammar of the news item. |
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:-) I don't think that's a very good idea. I find too often that I don't |
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know when to stop, and I'd hate to make enemies of the entire dev team! |
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> It's currently undergoing technical changes, and the draft has changed |
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> somewhat. |
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Well, let's hope it's improved in more ways than one... |
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Regards |
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Peter |
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