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

To: "John H. Robinson, IV" <jaqque@debian.org>
Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Incorrect use of "it's" in package control files -- file mass bug?
From: Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net>
Date: 06 Sep 2004 11:23:12 -0700
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"John H. Robinson, IV" <jaqque@debian.org> writes:

> Are you saying that Canadians are not Americans? That Mexicans are not
> Americans? Than Panamanians are not Americans? That Chileans are not
> Americans? That Mayans are not Americans? That the Iroquois are not
> Americans?

The word "American" is ambiguous.  Sometimes it refers to anyone from
the Americas; sometimes it refers only to those from the United
States.  The latter uses are far more common.

This isn't really that complicated.

Thomas

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- Re: Incorrect use of "it's" in package control files -- file mass bug?
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- Re: Incorrect use of "it's" in package control files -- file mass bug?
  - From: Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net>
- Re: Incorrect use of "it's" in package control files -- file mass bug?
  - From: Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>
- Re: Incorrect use of "it's" in package control files -- file mass bug?
  - From: Henrik Christian Grove <grove@sslug.dk>
- Re: Incorrect use of "it's" in package control files -- file mass bug?
  - From: Paul.Hampson@anu.edu.au (Paul Hampson)
- Re: Incorrect use of "it's" in package control files -- file mass bug?
  - From: Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net>
- Re: Incorrect use of "it's" in package control files -- file mass bug?
  - From: "John H. Robinson, IV" <jaqque@debian.org>
- Re: Incorrect use of "it's" in package control files -- file mass bug?
  - From: Brian Nelson <pyro@debian.org>
- Re: Incorrect use of "it's" in package control files -- file mass bug?
  - From: "John H. Robinson, IV" <jaqque@debian.org>
- Re: Incorrect use of "it's" in package control files -- file mass bug?
  - From: Brian Nelson <pyro@debian.org>
- Re: Incorrect use of "it's" in package control files -- file mass bug?
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