On Wednesday 10 May 2017 10:11:36 Walter Dnes wrote: > 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 too new to have been archived yet.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.
No, I didn't mean to. I know it wasn't your wording. > I hereby volunteer you to join the Gentoo-dev list and help clean up the > grammar of the news item. :-) I don't think that's a very good idea. I find too often that I don't know when to stop, and I'd hate to make enemies of the entire dev team! > It's currently undergoing technical changes, and the draft has changed > somewhat. Well, let's hope it's improved in more ways than one... -- Regards Peter
