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A new set of tools and libraries for working with SquashFS images
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user experience: unintelligible prose fragment #108

Closed Steve-Newcomb closed 1 year ago

Steve-Newcomb commented 1 year ago

output from gensquashfs:

"Out of which where fragment blocks: 39613"

What does this mean? Maybe it means,

"Fragment blocks included in the above: 39613"

?

AgentD commented 1 year ago

The "where" is a glaring typo I apparently never caught so far and should be "were". Commit f3d87d9 takes care of that.

And yes, it is supposed to mean exactly what you suggest it means.

I guess I semi-consciously based it on food labeling. Similar to the drink bottle on my desk stating something to the effect of "carbohydrates: X g, out of which are sugar: Y g", but it's labeled in my native German, which now makes me wonder if there's something wrong with paraphrasing it in English like I did?

Tickling Google the right way produces excerpts from literature using the same phrasing, but they seem to be predominantly chemistry books? Not sure if I can use chemistry as an example for normal use of language ("To the SquashFS was a then added X fragment blocks").