small grammar patch

Andreas Ericsson ae at op5.se
Fri Aug 12 02:13:42 CEST 2005


jeff vier wrote:
> minor grammar edit in cgi.c.
> 
> "Whence" means "from where".
> So, "Return from whence you came." is silly ('from from'?).
> 

It's actually correct as it is. Whence is just "when" but used in the 3 
spatial dimensions rather than the linear one (time). All according to 
the little dictionary applet RedHat decided to install on my laptop 
along with the actually useful stuff.

     O, how unlike the place from whence they fell?
                                                   --Milton.
          1913 Webster

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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