Re: [PATCH] Took care of some grammatical mistakes

[Bagas Sanjaya]

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.

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