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NLNOG Server Ring Project
http://ring.nlnog.net/
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Update ring-ping #103

Closed jan-vandenberg closed 2 years ago

jan-vandenberg commented 2 years ago

Fix typo.

ytti commented 2 years ago

Please educate me, why is this a typo? My naive understanding; 'lot of modification' implies single modification of multiple changes, 'lot of modifications' implies multiple modifications of unspecified amount of changes per modification'.

job commented 2 years ago

the y in modyfication definitely is a typo :-)

ytti commented 2 years ago

Thanks, I was just looking at the singular and plural and wondering why singular is typo, just for my edification, singular would have been ok?

grizz commented 2 years ago

You made me curious, since singular still seemed like a typo to me. I believe it is, it should refer to a plural:

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/186113/shouldn-t-we-use-lots-of-with-plural-nouns-and-a-lot-of-with-singular-ones#:~:text=A%20lot%20of%20things%20means,the%20plural%20form%20of%20lot.

arjenz commented 2 years ago

That stackexchange post discusses if/when the plural "lots" should be used, don't think that applies here. I agree with ytti, "a lot of modifications" and "a lot of modification" are both correct but with different meanings (I haven't looked at history so I don't know which meaning applies here).