Re: [PATCH] Fixed typo in message comment

Greg Stein wrote:
> In the future, I'd ask that you not indent these. If I copy/paste the
> above, then I'll have to dedent it.
>

Interesting linguistic question here ... I'd have expected "outdent" to
be the opposite of 'indent", and "dedent" seems to be more closely
related to what dentists do to you with a big hamer and mwahahaha
laughing gas.

[...]

> I would disagree with this change.
>
> If I spoke the line, I would say "... open an ARE AY local session
> ...". Saying the letters implies "an" rather than "a". The latter
> would only make sense if you said "RAH local", which nobody does :-P
>

Hah, I do :)

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