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Re: Incorrect use of "it's" in package control files -- file mass bug?



"John H. Robinson, IV" <jaqque@debian.org> writes:

> Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> > 
> > That's just how language works: messy and inconsistent.
> 
> And this is why I lament the lack of a clear, solid, unambiguous word to
> mean "from the USA."

The lack of such a word may be lamentable, but that doesn't translate
into the sudden existence of such a word.  Language doesn't change by
people saying "I'm going to use a new word now, and you all should
change!"



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