On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 9:02 PM, Laszlo Papp <lpapp@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 06:59:57PM +0000, Laszlo Papp wrote: >>> On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> > On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 05:22:18PM +0000, Laszlo Papp wrote: >> >>> >> - * (eg, a clear on read interrupt status register). If this >>> >> + * (e.g. a clear on read interrupt status register). If this >> >>> > This is somewhat outdated orthorgraphy... >> >>> Pardon ? >> >> It's not that common to write it as an abbreviation (even though it is >> one) and for some random reason you've decided to drop the comma which >> is standard. > > Cannot agree. I see this effectively almost anywhere, and I even asked > this on IRC from native English speaker in #English @ freenode who > were in an agreement with me as far as I can tell. > > That being said, I will not have time, nor the motivation to argue > over such a nuance, so feel free to reject the change. Of course, this is just on top of the vim spell checker error as I wrote in the commit message... Oh yes, and one more factual data in here: lpapp ~/Projects/linux-staging $ grep -rn "e\.g\." . | wc -l 3447 lpapp ~/Projects/linux-staging $ grep -rn " eg," | wc -l 18 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
