On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 10:09:26AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote > On Tuesday 09 May 2017 14:29:16 Walter Dnes wrote: > > > It's a feature, not a bug. <G> There's a news item being worked on in > > the Gentoo dev list. I'd normally just link to a mail archive, but it's > > too new to have been archived yet. Here's a copy of the proposed news > > item. > > (Quoting order changed.) > > Sorry, Walter, but I just couldn't let this go. Reading it hurt too much. > > English grammar has very few hard-and-fast rules, but one is absolutely > sacrosanct: every verb agrees in number with its subject. If I'd been guilty > of this at school I'd have earned myself a stiff rebuke:
I was merely quoting the post verbatim. Don't shoot the messanger. I hereby volunteer you to join the Gentoo-dev list and help clean up the grammar of the news item. It's currently undergoing technical changes, and the draft has changed somewhat. -- Walter Dnes <[email protected]> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
