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From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Manual pages: wording fix: "another" ==> "other"
Date: Fri, 29 May 2020 14:37:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200529123725.mcmbr5dsq6tgzdp7@ws.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200529122048.1052198-1-mtk.manpages@gmail.com>

On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 02:20:47PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> surprisingly confusing for native speakers, especially those
> unaware that in some other languages, "another" and "other" can be
> expressed with the same word.

"Gammarly" firefox module highlights this my mistake pretty often  :-)

>  disk-utils/fdisk.8        | 2 +-
>  disk-utils/sfdisk.8       | 4 ++--
>  login-utils/runuser.1     | 2 +-
>  login-utils/su.1          | 2 +-
>  misc-utils/blkid.8        | 2 +-
>  sys-utils/lsmem.1         | 3 ++-
>  sys-utils/mount.8         | 9 +++++----
>  sys-utils/umount.8        | 6 +++---
>  term-utils/scriptreplay.1 | 2 +-
>  text-utils/column.1       | 2 +-
>  10 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

 All 2 patches applied. Thank.

    Karel

-- 
 Karel Zak  <kzak@redhat.com>
 http://karelzak.blogspot.com


      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-05-29 12:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-29 12:20 [PATCH 1/2] Manual pages: wording fix: "another" ==> "other" Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-05-29 12:20 ` [PATCH 2/2] Manual pages: mount.8: Miscellaneous wording, grammar, and formatting fixes Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-05-29 12:37 ` Karel Zak [this message]

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