On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 11:08:46AM +0100, Miroslav Benes wrote: > On Tue, 28 Nov 2023, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > > > > > On 11/28/23 06:12, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > > 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. > > > > Agreed. > > Yes. Attreyee, please fix this instead. > > > > 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. > > > > Apparently you can find anything on the internet. :) > > > > Here's the other side: > > > > https://jakubmarian.com/each-others-vs-each-others-in-english/ > > I am not a native speaker, but "step on each other's toe" sounds the best > to me. Or perhaps even "they need to be aware of each other and not step > on their toes" since it is then kind of implied? English is difficult :). > I agree with yours and Jakub's blogpost, since 'each other' refers to every single individual. Thanks. -- An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara
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