From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 4 6:23:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from techunix.technion.ac.il (techunix.technion.ac.il [132.68.1.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9211A37BC52 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 06:23:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mellon@techunix.technion.ac.il) Received: by techunix.technion.ac.il (Postfix, from userid 14309) id 1DC2286AF; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 15:23:46 +0200 (IST) Message-ID: <20000404152346.01398@techunix.technion.ac.il> Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 15:23:46 +0200 From: Anatoly Vorobey To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDCon East References: <200003270335.WAA84881@server.baldwin.cx> <38E0F56F.CE20A131@gorean.org> <20000328203328.A8187@happy.checkpoint.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: ; from Dag-Erling Smorgrav on Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 01:18:32PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org You, Dag-Erling Smorgrav, were spotted writing this on Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 01:18:32PM +0200: > Anatoly Vorobey writes: > > What, no its/it's grumbling? Your too merciful. > > One of my first commits was a huge patch (submitted by some Russian > whose name I don't remember) fixing seventy-odd its/it's errors in > comments in the kernel source. I was immediately flamed by at least > one native speaker who claimed the patch was all wrong and us > furriners should leave this stuff to native speakers... Oh well. Yep. About two years ago. That Russian was me. And of course, every single fix there was correct ;) -- Anatoly Vorobey, mellon@pobox.com http://pobox.com/~mellon/ "Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly" - G.K.Chesterton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message