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Date:      Fri, 3 Jan 2003 20:28:18 +0000
From:      Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        doc@freebsd.org, Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
Subject:   Re: request for review
Message-ID:  <20030103202818.GC10906@submonkey.net>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20030103152335.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20030103201347.GB10906@submonkey.net> <XFMail.20030103152335.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 03:23:35PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> On 03-Jan-2003 Ceri Davies wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 07:59:36PM +0000, Ceri Davies wrote:
> > +     <td>Absolute BSD.  This book discusses management of
> > +     FreeBSD-based servers in an enterprise, high-performance
> > +     environment.
> > 
> > Add another comma after "high-performance".
> 
> Why?

Because it's Friday evening and I am, once again, dead on my feet.

> One doesn't normally put commas between adjectives and the
> nouns they describe.  I might write "the green, fast car", but
> I wouldn't write "the green, car" or "the green, fast, car".

Of course.

Ceri

[That'll do, sigmonster; that'll do]
-- 
A child of five could understand this!  Fetch me a child of five.

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