From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: English usage bug in bytecomp.el Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 08:09:33 +0900 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com, miles@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110236763 24851 80.91.229.2 (7 Mar 2005 23:06:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 23:06:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 08 00:06:02 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8RIJ-0007CG-Nr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 00:05:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8RcA-0007AA-0x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2005 18:26:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D8Rb3-0006nI-Vl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2005 18:25:10 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D8Rb1-0006m6-FE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2005 18:25:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8Rb0-0006li-CN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2005 18:25:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.192] (helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D8RM1-0002jE-Fv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2005 18:09:37 -0500 Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 40so26492wri for ; Mon, 07 Mar 2005 15:09:37 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=VxZs+zvBUMObOCV0mfqI3sWPjHFOvAnSsskSRfFUJXKAoOEYFMB+3nAPs1XuLLDRKX9MswU8kIp2yXfKkgzFpKlFWxfM/Km0TeS0G+jK/OfdUjD+XwbLRGZaFIpEi0gW1TSObWKOpWkqlbsq0JGoSB/UsZNafPWbbWx353YD5uM= Original-Received: by 10.54.17.52 with SMTP id 52mr136367wrq; Mon, 07 Mar 2005 15:09:36 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.54.19.70 with HTTP; Mon, 7 Mar 2005 15:09:33 -0800 (PST) Original-To: Alan Mackenzie In-Reply-To: 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 X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:34292 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34292 > . This combination of "is" and "since" is incorrect English usage. I think "is ... since" is pretty common usage actually, and certainly makes sense. -Miles -- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.