Re: [RFC 1/6]Fix typo "recieve" in various parts of the kernel.

[Justin P. Mattock]

On 04/08/2011 12:14 AM, Ricard Wanderlof wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Apr 2011, Justin P. Mattock wrote:
>
> > On 04/07/2011 01:05 PM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 09:09:22AM -0700, Justin P. Mattock wrote:
> > > > The patch below fixes some typos "recieve" in various parts of the
> > > > kernel.
> > > > Note: these below are in actual code rather than comments(excpet for
> > > > r852.c which
> > > s/excpet/except/
> > >
> > > > has a code fix, and comment).
> > > > compile tested as best as I can...
> > > I'm not a native speaker, but "as good as" sounds better in my ears.
> > >
> > > Best regards
> > > Uwe
> >
> > your right.. gcc and friends are the one's doing all the reall work:
> > "as good as *"
>
> I think Uwe was thinking of grammar rather than who was doing the actual
> work.
>
> Now that I've gone more or less off topic I may as well voice my opinion
> the 'as best as I can' sounds like a mixup of two constructs: either 'as
> best I can' (which is probably slightly unusual these days), or 'as well
> as I can'. 'I've done it as good as I can' is gramatically wrong (since
> 'good' is an adjective and 'well' is an adverb, and it is referring to
> 'how I did it' (or in the case above, 'how well I tested it'), but
> fairly common nevertheless, and given the large percentage of non-native
> speakers in the Linux community I wouldn't worry about it, the meaning
> is clear anyway.
>
> I'll shut up and go now. :-)
>
> /Ricard


well... pretty good explanation.

Justin P. Mattock
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