Keith MARSHALL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Eric S. Raymond wrote, quoting Werner Lemberg:
> >> I think I can stand the torrent of indignation[1] which will occur due
> >> to this mapping -- my safe bet is that noone will complain.
> >>
> >> [1] Maybe this is wrong English but it sounds more poetical than
> >> `storm of protest'. :-)
> >
> > That's perfectly correct idiomatic English.
>
> Well, maybe not quite! There's certainly nothing wrong with `torrent of
> indignation', but there is a minor flaw on the following line -- there is
> no such word as `noone'! You may say either `nobody', (one word), or
> `no one', (which must be written as two separate words).
Keith is correct: I was focusing on the phrase, not the entire sentence.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
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