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Code humor and inclusiveness

Code humor and inclusiveness

Posted Jun 17, 2021 19:21 UTC (Thu) by ecree (guest, #95790)
Parent article: Code humor and inclusiveness

It might help if people whose first language is not English were less eager to submit spelling and grammar corrections. In recent weeks I've seen quite a spate of patches of this kind on the netdev list, of which a considerable proportion have been erroneous; most of them haven't been missing jokes but simply showing their limited understanding of the English language. (For a representative example, see [1].) I don't know what has caused these to appear all of a sudden.

While this isn't putting any strain on reviewers that can't be borne, I can't help but feel that these submitters are making an inefficient use of their _own_ time and effort, and that they would serve both themselves and the project better if they focused on tasks where the language barrier put them at less of a disadvantage.

> Your editor has a hard time getting a laugh from native English speakers

Don't sell yourself short, Jon! Your articles always get a chuckle out of me :)

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/6/16/1167


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