Re: [PATCH] kernel source spellchecker

From: Jörn Engel (joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de)
Date: Sat Mar 01 2003 - 13:31:57 EST


On Sat, 1 March 2003 18:01:19 +0000, shaheed wrote:
> On Saturday 01 Mar 2003 4:35 pm, Jörn Engel wrote:
> > On Sat, 1 March 2003 15:57:13 +0000, shaheed wrote:
> > >
> > > brain-damaged=dain-bramaged,dain bramaged
> >
> > What's wrong with those? [...]
>
> Like you, I do get the joke: but in this case as in others, I took the view
> that the needs of those whose first language was not English should prevail.
> (Yes, I also know about the convention that the kernel is defined to be in
> English.)
>
> And, being not yet of even janitor status (:-)) myself, I did not submit the
> patch: I guess whoever does that has the final call!

ack.

I just wanted to make sure it would not be "corrected" by mistake. If
those are supposed to go, so be it. Things will be good now. :-)

Jörn

-- 
The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of
his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full
humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague. 
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra
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