On Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 12:05:09 -0400, George Neville-Neil wrote: > On 17 May 2016, at 3:16, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 0:04:51 -0700, John Baldwin wrote: >>> On Tuesday, May 17, 2016 04:40:01 AM Greg Lehey wrote: >>>> Author: grog >>>> Date: Tue May 17 04:40:00 2016 >>>> New Revision: 300003 >>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/300003 >>>> >>>> Log: >>>> Correct use of incorrect grammar. >>>> >>>> .Pp >>>> The debugging macros >>>> -.Dq "just grown" . >>>> +.Dq "just growed" . >>> >>> "grew"? >> >> "Just growed". Did you never read Uncle Tom's Cabin? Check Topsy. >> >> Of course, what this page really needs is a good overhaul. I'll see >> if I can muster the energy. > > Can you just be honest and admit that this is a trivial commit to > you can vote in the core elections?
No. I wouldn't have expected such an underhand accusation from you. I can be honest, but if you had taken the time to check, you would have seen that I was already eligible. And clearly if I had wanted to become eligible, my commit would have been designed not to draw so much attention. > And Seriously? Yes. This wasn't a new change, just reverting a change made in r235317. You'll notice that the expression is in quotes, indicating that it's, well, a quotation and not to be taken literally. And if you quote, you should quote correctly. I stumbled across this by accident doing Something Serious, and it grated. "Just growed" was in this man page from its first commit until 2003-12-30 until 2012-5-12. According to the commit log, the original was reviewed by jkoshy, des, gallatin and njl. > Uncle Toms Cabin? To be fair, I didn't know where it came from either. I only discovered that when searching for the origin of this expression, which until yesterday I had thought well-known. What I have learnt from this exchange is: - Many Americans don't know the expression, though it's American. - Nobody seems to care that the rest of the page is out of date. - People seem to have lost any remnant sense of humour. - You still can't tune a fish. - The bikeshed is blue. Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger g...@freebsd.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA
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