[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Spelling

[Michel Bardiaux]

Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 12:23:31PM +0100, Michel Bardiaux wrote:
>> Not for the sake of purity - I greeped for 'smaller than' and did not 
>> find it, so...
> 
> By all means commit.  The problem remains, though.  Do people around
> here know the difference between "then" (temporal, German "dann") and
> "than" (comparative, German "als")?
> 
> Diego

Maybe the majority are Flemish Belgians, or Dutch, in disguise :-). In 
Dutch it's the same word, "dan".

A quick web search for "greater then (exact phrase)" seems to indicate 
the mistake is extremely common even amongst native English speakers.

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