linux.conf.au/debiancon: January 2003
Recent EMail Thread: Linux Kernel Mailing List

From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>

In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.1021106113408.24531B-100000@gatekeeper.tmr.com> you write:
> Please don't take this personally, but you just used another double
> negative in your response.

Did I?  Not that I'm not sorry, but I just didn't realize my lack of
clarity was causing confusion.  I shall take your words to heart.

> Now you may think that way, and talk that way, but a lot of people
> who use Linux are not native speakers of English, and from
> experience I suggest that the complex gramatical constructs in all
> the help stuff should be avoided.

I'd never have thought of that myself, but you're right.  Even among
our peers on this mailing list, for example, the nuances of English
sometimes go astray.

I will try to ensure my writing is straigtforward and impossible to
misunderstand.

> Eschew obfuscation.

Sorry, I don't understand?

But thankyou for your insight!
Rusty.
--
  Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.