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ljs

Lorenzo Stoakes

Secret mission: get more British (i.e. correct) English into kernel commit messages and documentation
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ljs

Lorenzo Stoakes

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Soon I will have more people driving on the left in the US too
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monsieuricon

K. Ryabitsev

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@ljs the fact that the kernel has both the British and American spellings equally accepted suggests that the kernel is actually Canadian.
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jk@aus.social

Jeremy Kerr

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@monsieuricon @ljs it would need more French, non?

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monsieuricon

K. Ryabitsev

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@jk @ljs There used to be lots of "French" in the kernel source, but it was purged. :)

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/removing-profanity-source-tree
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jk@aus.social

Jeremy Kerr

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@monsieuricon @ljs hah!

but then.. maybe it is Canadian:

[jk@pecola linux]$ git grep -iw sorry | wc -l
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ptesarik@fosstodon.org

Petr Tesarik

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@jk @monsieuricon @ljs This is my favourite occurrence:
*** ocfs2 is very sorry to be fencing this system by panicing ***
(except it should be spelled “panicking”, but I doubt it's worth a patch)

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pavel

Pavel Machek

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@ljs Please select one English dialect and stick to it. find /sys |grep colour is empty on my system, and it should stay that way.
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ljs

Lorenzo Stoakes

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@pavel relax, anything user-exposed will be wrong English.

I'm talking commit messages, comments etc.
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vbabka

Vlastimil Babka

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@ljs @pavel we could add symlinks!
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pavel

Pavel Machek

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@ljs Yeah, so it will be "colour" in interface descriptions, and then "color" in interface? That will surely work well with noone making mistakes.
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ljs

Lorenzo Stoakes

Reply to @pavel
@pavel I don't even understand what you mean here you're just confused
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lkundrak@metalhead.club

HAMMER SMASHED FILESYSTEM 🇺🇦

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@ljs @pavel arent we all

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ljs

Lorenzo Stoakes

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@lkundrak @pavel some considerably more than others, it seems...
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lkundrak@metalhead.club

HAMMER SMASHED FILESYSTEM 🇺🇦

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@ljs @pavel its weekend, pavel riping bongs then riding horses in the woods
doesnt care about commit meshuggah
🧠 🪓 🐟

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lkundrak@metalhead.club

HAMMER SMASHED FILESYSTEM 🇺🇦

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@ljs @pavel probably shitpostin' from some n900 or olpc

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