Re: Those ruddy punctuation fixes
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Thu, 6 Mar 2003 09:58:44 +0000
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 05:50:27PM -0800, jw schultz wrote:
> > Russell's patch -> The patch which Russell wrote
>
> Assumes data not in evidence. Russel might have composited
> the patch. Try "The patch from Russel" or "The patch Russel
> provided" I would honestly be willing to have just "Russels
> Patch", "Russel patch" or "patch a la Russel" to evade the
> tortured language for avoiding the possesive.
And on the subject of spelling fixes, can I call you j schult? 8)
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