On Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 10:04:04AM +0530, Thomas Stephen Lee wrote:> I doubt that releasing CentOS 7.7 is a higher priority as many people are > using CentOS 7,... I'm not quite sure how to parse that... John -- If the world were a village of 100 people .... 6 people (all in the USA) would own 59% of all the village's wealth, 74 people would share another 39%, and 20 people would share the remaining 2%. -- David Copeland, in Value Earth
On Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 12:11:09PM -0500, John R. Dennison wrote:> > On Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 10:04:04AM +0530, Thomas Stephen Lee wrote: > > I doubt that releasing CentOS 7.7 is a higher priority as many people are > > using CentOS 7, > > ... > > I'm not quite sure how to parse that...I believe it is supposed to be: "I doubt that! Releasing CentOS 7.7 is a higher priority, as many people are using CentOS 7." Punctuation is important. -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>
On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 11:07 AM Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org> wrote:> > On Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 12:11:09PM -0500, John R. Dennison wrote: > > > > On Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 10:04:04AM +0530, Thomas Stephen Lee wrote: > > > I doubt that releasing CentOS 7.7 is a higher priority as many people are > > > using CentOS 7, > > > > ... > > > > I'm not quite sure how to parse that... > > I believe it is supposed to be: > > "I doubt that! Releasing CentOS 7.7 is a higher priority, as many > people are using CentOS 7." > > Punctuation is important.I have yet another theory. He probably meant to say: "I suspect that releasing..." As someone who is not a native English speaker, I know how this happens. "doubt" and "suspect" can be translated into the same word (certainly in Japanese). As a result, these two words are often used incorrectly. Akemi