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From: "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org>
To: ALT Devel discussion list <devel@lists.altlinux.org>
Subject: Re: [devel] [engrish]
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:45:10 +0300
Message-ID: <20091027154509.GA5352@wo.int.altlinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091027151349.GS3132@osdn.org.ua>

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On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 05:13:49PM +0200, Michael Shigorin wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 08:58:33PM +0000, QA Team Robot wrote:
> > git - Git core and tools
> > * Mon Oct 26 2009 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux> 1.6.5.2-alt1
> > - Updated to maint v1.6.5.2.
> > - Enabled Linus's block-sha1 implementation.

This spelling was cut-n-pasted from RelNotes-1.6.5.txt

> Правильно было бы Linus' -- при добавлении притяжательного
> суффикса 's к слову, заканчивающемуся на "s" (и, кажется,
> на "x"), в аглицком действует такое правило.  Исключения
> вроде ещё были, точно не помню.

Not exactly.  If a _plural_ noun does end in "s" we put an apostrophe
at the end of the word.  With a _singular_ noun we use "'s".


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ldv

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-27 15:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-27 15:13 ` [devel] [engrish] Re: [cyber] I: Sisyphus-20091026 packages: +9! +47 (9412) Michael Shigorin
2009-10-27 15:26   ` Damir Shayhutdinov
2009-10-27 15:45   ` Dmitry V. Levin [this message]
2009-10-28  8:23     ` [devel] [engrish] Alexey Rusakov
2009-10-29  1:54       ` Mikhail Yakshin
2009-10-30 22:18         ` Michael Shigorin

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