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08-30-2013, 05:15 AM
#1
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Registered: Nov 2008
Location: Paris, France
Distribution: Slint64-15.0
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Small typos in removepkg's manual page
Suggested update on occasion:
s/it's original file index/its original file index/
s/it's installation script/ its installation script/
08-30-2013, 05:25 AM
#2
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Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Oldham, Lancs, England
Distribution: Slackware64 15; SlackwareARM-current (aarch64); Debian 12
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Aaaaargh!!! The Curse of the Superfluous Apostrophe! We're all DOOOOMED!!!!
08-30-2013, 05:29 AM
#3
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Location: Kirkwall, Orkney
Distribution: Linux Mint 20.3 - Cinnamon
Posts: 1,425
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@brianL
there, their, they're.
Just a quick calming phrase to help you relax...... tee hee hee!
samac
08-30-2013, 05:33 AM
#4
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Location: Oldham, Lancs, England
Distribution: Slackware64 15; SlackwareARM-current (aarch64); Debian 12
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Quote:
Originally Posted by
samac
@brianL
there, their, they're.
Just a quick calming phrase to help you relax...... tee hee hee!
samac
Thanks. I needed that.
08-30-2013, 08:57 AM
#5
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Registered: Oct 2003
Location: Melbourne
Distribution: Slackware64-15.0
Posts: 6,371
Quote:
Suggested update on occasion:
s/it's original file index/its original file index/
s/it's installation script/ its installation script/
I would prefer
Code:
s/it's original file index/the original file index/
s/it's installation script/the installation script/
Quote:
Aaaaargh!!! The Curse of the Superfluous Apostrophe! We're all DOOOOMED!!!!
Hear, hear!
Although in brianL's case should that be Hair, hare?
08-30-2013, 09:18 AM
#6
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Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Oldham, Lancs, England
Distribution: Slackware64 15; SlackwareARM-current (aarch64); Debian 12
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Quote:
Originally Posted by
allend
Hear, hear!
Although in brianL's case should that be Hair, hare?
Or, as we say in Oldham: Urrr.
08-30-2013, 09:36 AM
#7
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Registered: Oct 2003
Location: Melbourne
Distribution: Slackware64-15.0
Posts: 6,371
Er,
I retract the slur.
I am a cur!
That I put a burr,
In the fur,
Of the codger,
From Oldham.
08-30-2013, 09:48 AM
#8
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Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Oldham, Lancs, England
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Nice poem.
09-08-2013, 01:22 AM
#9
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Registered: Dec 2012
Location: California
Distribution: Slackware 14.2
Posts: 44
Rep:
Its still there.
: (
09-08-2013, 04:54 AM
#10
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Quote:
Originally Posted by
Poucket
Its still there.
: (
Thats terrible.
09-08-2013, 08:46 AM
#11
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Registered: Oct 2003
Location: Melbourne
Distribution: Slackware64-15.0
Posts: 6,371
Now the two superfluities have a suitable home in the last two posts, grammatical correctness can be achieved!
to become It's still there.
to become That's terrible.
09-08-2013, 11:10 AM
#12
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Yeah, thats fixed it's grammar error. Thank's.
09-08-2013, 01:16 PM
#13
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Registered: Mar 2004
Location: Kirkwall, Orkney
Distribution: Linux Mint 20.3 - Cinnamon
Posts: 1,425
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@BrianL
samac shakes his head Are you being contumacious?
samac
09-08-2013, 01:24 PM
#14
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Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Oldham, Lancs, England
Distribution: Slackware64 15; SlackwareARM-current (aarch64); Debian 12
Posts: 8,298
Rep:
Quote:
Originally Posted by
samac
@BrianL
samac shakes his head Are you being contumacious?
samac
I would be if I knew what it meant.
Code:
bash-4.2$ man contumacious
No manual entry for contumacious
bash-4.2$
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