[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Spelling
Panagiotis Issaris
takis.issaris
Thu Feb 15 13:51:55 CET 2007
Hi,
Michel Bardiaux schreef:
> 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".
Indeed, I find it very confusing :) and I am a (partly) Flemish Belgian.
> A quick web search for "greater then (exact phrase)" seems to indicate
> the mistake is extremely common even amongst native English speakers.
With friendly regards,
Takis
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