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Re: [PATCH] IPV4: spelling correction

To: Nivedita Singhvi <niv@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPV4: spelling correction
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 10:51:24 -0800
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On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 10:44:48 -0800
Nivedita Singhvi <niv@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I strongly object. Strongly and strenuously. DaveM, please,
> please, please, leave those golden lines alone. The original
> from Alexey is a work of art, humor, character and intelligence.

I totally agree.  In documentation and things for end users, fine.
We can typo correct till the end of time.  But for comments meant
for programmers, let's keep it lively and humorous and sometimes
flat out grammatically wrong.  This is what gives it flavor makes
it our's.

Often times I can tell who wrote what merely by the phrasing style
of the comments.  That's incredibly cool :)

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