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To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/dpt dpt_control.c src/sys/gnu/ext2fs... 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 17 Apr 1998 22:00:31 MST."
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Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 13:42:15 +0800
From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
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Julian Elischer wrote:
> Peter Wemm wrote:
> > 
> > "Dag-Erling C. Sm\xf8rgrav" wrote:
> > > des         1998/04/17 15:37:20 PDT
> > >
> > >   Modified files:
> > >     sys/dev/dpt          dpt_control.c
> > >     sys/gnu/ext2fs       COPYRIGHT.INFO ext2_alloc.c ext2_vnops.c
> > [..]
> > >     sys/ufs/ufs          ufs_vnops.c
> > >   Log:
> > >   Seventy-odd "its" / "it's" typos in comments fixed as per kern/6108.
> > 
> > What the hell???  I don't call this "fixing typos", as far as I can tell,
> > most of these changes have broken the correct usage.
> > 
> > eg:  here, we are talking about the device's softc:
> > +++ dpt_control.c       1998/03/23 10:49:01
> > @@ -175,7 +175,7 @@
> > 
> >  /**
> >   * Given a minor device number,
> > - * return the pointer to it's softc structure
> > + * return the pointer to its softc structure
> 
> 
> sorry to contradict you Peter but this is the trick..
> 
> "its" is a single word, the same as:
> "his" and "her"
> 
> as in:
> 
> his cat, her cat, its cat
> 
> 
> the other version,  e.g.
> "Joh's crow" or  "John's VM code",
> shouldn't be confused with this..
> 
> why schools never explain it in this way I'll never understand.
> it took me years till someone explained this to me so clearly..
> 
> Until then I'd assumed..
> "Sue's cakes", "John's cat", "it's softc"
> 
> but that's wrong.
> "it's" is soley for the contraction "it is".
> 
> julian

Yes, I see that now.  But I had to look at a dictionary first before I
believed it... :-)

Cheers,
-Peter



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