Re: CentOS 8 will be released soon?

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On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 11:07 AM Jonathan Billings <billings@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 12:11:09PM -0500, John R. Dennison wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 10:04:04AM +0530, Thomas Stephen Lee wrote:
> > > I doubt that releasing CentOS 7.7 is a higher priority as many people are
> > > using CentOS 7,
> >
> > ...
> >
> > I'm not quite sure how to parse that...
>
> I believe it is supposed to be:
>
> "I doubt that!  Releasing CentOS 7.7 is a higher priority, as many
> people are using CentOS 7."
>
> Punctuation is important.

I have yet another theory. He probably meant to say:

"I suspect that releasing..."

As someone who is not a native English speaker, I know how this
happens. "doubt" and "suspect" can be translated into the same word
(certainly in Japanese). As a result, these two words are often used
incorrectly.

Akemi
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