Re: [OT] 'the the' in mails ...

[Jonathan Lundell]

At 2:32pm +0100 8/19/03, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Maw, 2003-08-19 at 02:24, Herbert Pötzl wrote:
> >  I know this is absolutely off topic, but
> >  about 30 threads, in the last two months,
> >  on lkml contain this strange construct,
> >  and I'm worried that I miss something very
> >  important ...
>
> Its a very common typo, especially at the end of a line.

...where for some reason it tends to be invisible.

A quick scan of some list messages suggests that 
it's also a fairly common typo for "to the", 
"that the", and the like. A case of the brain 
running on ahead of the fingers, I suppose.
--
/Jonathan Lundell.
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