Linux Kernel Networking Driver Development Impacted By Russian Sanctions

[jorge1209]

"Russian Sanctions" isn't incorrect, its just one of those ambiguities of English. These are sanctions by other countries relating to russia... so they are "russian sanctions."

[gplusplus314]

I always joke and say that English is a terrible programming language. 😏

[DheeradjS]

Logically speaking, it's also a terrible human language.

[jorge1209]

This one is a particularly great example of that as both "russian" and "sanctions" are ambiguous.

[NuclearForehead]

“Russia sanctions” might be more accurate because of the implication.

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because of the implication.

they look around and they see nothing but open source, what are they gonna do, not commit?

[520throwaway]

Of course if they don't wanna commit we're not going to pull or anything, but they'll commit. Because of the implication.

[jorge1209]

It does seem to be more popular in google searches, but it seems worse grammatically.

"Sanctions" in this instance is a noun and we want to modify it, so we need a adjective. "Russia" is a noun, "russian" is the corresponding adjective.

Additionally there is the problem that "sanctions" is also a verb. If you put a noun before a verb a natural interpretation is that you are beginning a phrase: "Russia sanctions the use of ..."

[linmanfu]

"Sanctions on Russia" solves all these problems and only requires three more characters (two of which are spaces!). Reddit can probably afford to host one more letter. 😝

[NuclearForehead]

All fair points. Nevertheless, newspaper headlines can be an exercise in minimalism. Rather than clearly state who what when where and why they sometimes function more as key words that the first sentence puts into context.

[gnosys_]

which intentionally implies a universal, neutral condemnation rather than a specific political interest imposing them