Re: [PATCH] Took care of some grammatical mistakes

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On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 11:41:31AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 11/27/23 07:57, attreyee-muk wrote:
> > Respected Maintainers, 
> > 
> > I have made some grammatical changes in the livepatch.rst file where I
> > felt that the sentence would have sounded more correct and would have become easy for
> > beginners to understand by reading. 
> > Requesting review of my proposed changes from the mainatiners. 
> > 
> > Thank You
> > Attreyee Mukherjee
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: attreyee-muk <tintinm2017@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/livepatch/livepatch.rst | 8 ++++----
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/livepatch/livepatch.rst b/Documentation/livepatch/livepatch.rst
> > index 68e3651e8af9..a2d2317b7d6b 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/livepatch/livepatch.rst
> > +++ b/Documentation/livepatch/livepatch.rst
> > @@ -35,11 +35,11 @@ and livepatching:
> >  
> >  All three approaches need to modify the existing code at runtime. Therefore
> > -they need to be aware of each other and not step over each other's toes.
> > +they need to be aware of each other and not step over each others' toes.
> 
> I've never seen that written like that, so I disagree here. FWIW.

"Step over" is new to me too.  I see "step on" much more often.
As far as placement of the apostrophe,
https://ludwig.guru/s/step+on+each+others+toes
suggests either omitting the apostrophe or placing it after the s,
as attreyee-muk has done is most common.





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