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Re: [PATCH] Fixed typo in message comment

Author brane
Full name Branko Cibej
Date 2009-04-17 12:25:46 PDT
Message Greg Stein wrote:
> In the future, I'd ask that you not indent these. If I copy/paste the
> above, then I'll have to dedent it.
>

Interesting linguistic question here ... I'd have expected "outdent" to
be the opposite of 'indent", and "dedent" seems to be more closely
related to what dentists do to you with a big hamer and mwahahaha
laughing gas.

[...]

> I would disagree with this change.
>
> If I spoke the line, I would say "... open an ARE AY local session
> ...". Saying the letters implies "an" rather than "a". The latter
> would only make sense if you said "RAH local", which nobody does :-P
>

Hah, I do :)

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[PATCH] Fixed typo in message comment e_wong Edmund Wong 2009-04-17 02:09:59 PDT
     Re: [PATCH] Fixed typo in message comment e_wong Edmund Wong 2009-04-17 03:32:53 PDT
         Re: [PATCH] Fixed typo in message comment gstein Greg Stein 2009-04-17 03:48:37 PDT
             Re: [PATCH] Fixed typo in message comment e_wong Edmund Wong 2009-04-17 05:45:26 PDT
     Re: [PATCH] Fixed typo in message comment gstein Greg Stein 2009-04-17 03:53:39 PDT
         Re: [PATCH] Fixed typo in message comment brane Branko Cibej 2009-04-17 12:25:46 PDT
         Re: [PATCH] Fixed typo in message comment e_wong Edmund Wong 2009-04-17 19:03:20 PDT
             Re: [PATCH] Fixed typo in message comment neels Neels Janosch Hofmeyr 2009-04-17 19:32:35 PDT
                 Re: [PATCH] Fixed typo in message comment neels Neels Janosch Hofmeyr 2009-04-17 19:39:56 PDT
                     Re: [PATCH] Fixed typo in message comment gavinbaumanis Gavin Baumanis 2009-04-19 05:12:16 PDT
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