{"thread":{"id":"14271","subject":"OT: Re: [PATCH 08/15] gitdiffcore(7): fix awkward wording","startedAt":"2008-07-03T06:37:33Z","lastAt":"2008-07-03T12:56:52Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Jonathan Nieder"],"isPatch":true,"patchVersion":1,"patchTotal":15},"messages":[{"id":"82095","messageId":"20080703013733.BIF31353@m4500-01.uchicago.edu","threadId":"14271","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"OT: Re: [PATCH 08/15] gitdiffcore(7): fix awkward wording","fromName":"Jonathan Nieder","fromEmail":"jrnieder@uchicago.edu","sentAt":"2008-07-03T06:37:33Z","receivedAt":"2008-07-03T06:37:33Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"jrnieder@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/281595?v=4"},"body":"> The phrase \"diff outputs\" sounds awkward to my ear (I think\n> \"output\" is meant to be used as a substantive noun.)\n\nAck! that phrase made no sense. If you know what I meant and\nwhat it's called, I'd like to know :)\n\nThanks,\nJonathan\n"},{"id":"82124","messageId":"Pine.GSO.4.62.0807030752190.28699@harper.uchicago.edu","threadId":"14271","inReplyTo":"20080703013733.BIF31353@m4500-01.uchicago.edu","subject":"Re: OT: Re: [PATCH 08/15] gitdiffcore(7): fix awkward wording","fromName":"Jonathan Nieder","fromEmail":"jrnieder@uchicago.edu","sentAt":"2008-07-03T12:56:52Z","receivedAt":"2008-07-03T12:56:52Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"jrnieder@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/281595?v=4"},"body":"[Junio: sorry for the duplicate message. It occured to me too late \nthat a clarification might fix some confusion for the rest of the\nreaders of the list, too.]\n\nJunio C Hamano wrote:\n\n> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> writes:\n>\n>>> The phrase \"diff outputs\" sounds awkward to my ear (I think\n>>> \"output\" is meant to be used as a substantive noun.)\n>>\n>> Ack! that phrase made no sense. If you know what I meant and\n>> what it's called, I'd like to know :)\n>>\n>> Thanks,\n>> Jonathan\n>\n> As a bistander to this exchange, I am confused.  Who is acking whose\n> comment here?\n\nI wrote:\n\n> Sorry, I meant something to the same effect as \"Agh\". I should have\n> just gone to sleep.\n\nBut perhaps more important for my meaning is that by \"that phrase\" I\nmeant the phrase \"substantive noun\". I meant that \"output\" is a sort\nof fluid substance and so is rarely supposed to be plural unless\noutputs with different qualities are being discussed, but the phrase\n\"substantive noun\" conveys none of that at all. In fact, I think the\nphrase \"substantive noun\" just means \"noun\". Hence my dismay at not\nmaking any sense.\n\nSorry about the confusion.\n\nJonathan\n"}]}