Hi Andy, On Saturday 14 May 2011 15:31:55 Andy Walls wrote: > On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 16:43 +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > On Friday 13 May 2011 14:01:32 Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > > Couldn't spot any problems with the patch except: > > > > > > On Fri, 13 May 2011, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > > > From: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > > > M420 is an hybrid YUV 4:2:2 packet/planar format. Two Y lines are > > > > > > Didn't you mean "4:2:0"? > > > > Yep. I'll fix that. Thanks for the review. > > > > > And if I wanted to nit-pick, I think, it should be "a hybrid," I'm not > > > a native-speaker though;) > > Yes, "a hybrid" is the correct form. > > <digression> > The use of "a" or "an" is a speech rule; not a spelling rule. If the > word begins with a consonant sound, "a" is used; if the word begins with > a vowel sound, "-n" is appended, so "an" is used. > > The initial sounds of English words that begin with "h", "u", and "y" > can't be determined by the inital letter alone. One has to know how to > pronounce the word to choose the correct form: > > a hint > a unit > a yard > > an hour > an umbrella > an yttrium atom > > The rule for appending "-n" to "a" before a vowel sound allows faster > speech. Without the "-n" before a vowel sound, an English speaker is > going to pronounce the "a" either as a dipthong or with a trailing > glottal stop. Either will slow down speech ever so slightly. > </digression> I love your digressions about the English language, please keep them coming :-) -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
