From: jdelstrother@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:54:16 GMT
Subject: Re: grammar patches not best use of talent
Message-ID: <57518fd10901120054o5fbe78f8he0a54f6d62216ad5@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87bpudp77t.fsf_-_@jidanni.org>

Wait, "a handful X" is now a legitimate form of "a handful of X"?  I
assumed they were due to non-native speakers.

On 1/12/09, jidanni@jidanni.org <jidanni@jidanni.org> wrote:
> I've decided to back out of my plan to patch grammar.
> $ perl -nwle '/\w+\s+handful.*/i&& print $&' Documentation/*|sort -uf
> a handful commits on top of that,
> A handful documentation fixes.
> A handful documentation updates.
> a handful example hooks are copied in the
> a handful fixes to run it
> a handful of examples:
> A handful of sample hooks are installed when
> a handful pack-objects changes to help you cope better
> a handful small fixes to gitweb.
> a handful the real changes in non-zero
> first handful of characters, show the full
> only handful hexdigits prefix.
> only handful hexdigits prefix.  Non default number of
> only handful hexdigits prefix.  This is
>
> At first some of the above lines irritated me, but who am I to say
> that English must be said like my mom says it, and is never allowed to
> evolve further. Nope, I'll stick to correcting 2+2=3 type things.
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