From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 89, Issue 2 Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:29:57 +0300 Message-ID: <83pr2iwbuy.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83zl1nw1ns.fsf@gnu.org> <87pr2ir512.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1270193824 5338 80.91.229.12 (2 Apr 2010 07:37:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 07:37:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 02 09:36:56 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxbR1-0001zq-Op for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Apr 2010 09:36:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42739 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NxbR0-0007nE-4W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Apr 2010 03:36:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NxbLN-0005ol-CS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Apr 2010 03:31:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47979 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NxbLJ-0005ng-H7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Apr 2010 03:31:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxbLI-0004jt-CC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Apr 2010 03:31:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:46206) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxbLI-0004jZ-2k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Apr 2010 03:31:00 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L0800J00NHCA100@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:30:03 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.124.92.42]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L0800GFFNHW9780@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:30:03 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87pr2ir512.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:123052 Archived-At: > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" > Cc: Chong Yidong , > emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:56:25 +0900 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > > -in most any known written language. > > > +in almost any known written language. > > > > I don't think this was a typo. > > It's a typo. The vernacular "'most" is spelled with an apostrophe. > Alternatively, "in most known written languages", but "almost any" is > a much stronger statement. Whatever. All I know is that googling for "most any" yields 1,330,000,000 hits here. So maybe it's not 100% correct, but it is widely used jargon.