Re: PROBLEM: english language
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
16 Feb 1999 00:36:41 GMT
Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990215192543.13536B-100000@z.ml.org>
By author: Gregory Maxwell <linker@z.ml.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Umm..
>
> Do you see the "(sic" That usually stands for "Spelling is Correct".
>
> I dont know why the bottom below is correct, but it seems to want to stay
> the way it is.. :)
>
> On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Valery wrote:
>
> > --- linux-2.2.1/drivers/block/ide-cd.h.orig Sat Feb 13 21:53:24 1999
> > +++ linux-2.2.1/drivers/block/ide-cd.h Sat Feb 13 21:53:39 1999
> > @@ -776,7 +776,7 @@
> >
> > { 0x6400, "Illegal mode for this track or incompatible medium" },
> >
> > - { 0xb900, "Play operation oborted (sic)" },
> > + { 0xb900, "Play operation aborted (sic)" },
> >
Most likely, the (sic) comes from the error message being misspelled
in the spec. In other words, either it should be corrected and the
(sic) removed, or it should be left the way it was. This patch is
broken.
-hpa
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