From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
To: Thomas Molina <tmolina@cablespeed.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] add an -Os config option
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 10:48:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200308121048.04063.gene.heskett@verizon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308112149470.1795-100000@localhost.localdomain>
On Monday 11 August 2003 22:51, Thomas Molina wrote:
>On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Monday 11 August 2003 17:19, Michael Buesch wrote:
>> >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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>> >On Monday 11 August 2003 23:11, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>> >> + The resulting kernel might be significantly slower.
>> >
>> >With my poor english knowledge I would say it should be
>> > "significant". Correct?
>>
>> No, the quoted "significantly" version is the correct english
>> useage in this apparently present tense.
>
>Now you have hit one of my hot buttons :)
>
>Your use of useage is an incorrect use. Simply use use in the above
>sentence :)
>
>sineage, useage, etc. are simply incorrect
Well, in the everyday use, they do seem to be miss-used quite
frequently as it is observed by me. And I am not an english
professor, just a senior (68) citizen with an 8th grade education, a
GED, and a diploma from the University of Hard Knocks. There really
is such a thing you see.
--
Cheers, Gene
AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M
Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M
99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-12 14:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-11 21:11 [2.6 patch] add an -Os config option Adrian Bunk
2003-08-11 21:19 ` Michael Buesch
2003-08-11 21:37 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-11 21:39 ` Christophe Saout
2003-08-11 21:41 ` Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
2003-08-12 1:29 ` Gene Heskett
2003-08-12 2:51 ` Thomas Molina
2003-08-12 4:14 ` [OT] " Steven Cole
2003-08-12 15:25 ` Timothy Miller
2003-08-12 14:48 ` Gene Heskett [this message]
2003-08-12 10:11 ` Michael Buesch
2003-08-12 14:42 ` Gene Heskett
2003-08-12 1:45 ` Warren Turkal
2003-08-11 22:20 ` Russell King
2003-08-12 7:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-08-12 15:43 ` Timothy Miller
2003-08-12 15:58 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-08-12 16:03 ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-08-12 13:35 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-12 15:45 ` Joe Korty
2003-08-12 18:03 ` Timothy Miller
2003-08-12 19:43 John Bradford
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