From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Mar 26 15:36:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA11915 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 15:36:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ppp6573.on.bellglobal.com (ppp6573.on.bellglobal.com [206.172.208.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA11899 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 15:36:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ac199@hwcn.org) Received: from localhost (tim@localhost) by ppp6573.on.bellglobal.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA00332; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 18:34:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from ac199@hwcn.org) X-Authentication-Warning: ppp6573.on.bellglobal.com: tim owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 18:34:30 -0500 (EST) From: Tim Vanderhoek X-Sender: tim@localhost Reply-To: ac199@hwcn.org To: Sue Blake cc: ac199@hwcn.org, Sean Kelly , nik@iii.co.uk, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [REVIEW] Changes to the DocProj web pages In-Reply-To: <19980326235332.07015@welearn.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Sue Blake wrote: > > Yes, and other things such as a farely interesting spelling of > > fairly. "have got commit privs" should probably be just "have > > commit privs", and "Others haven't got ...": "Others don't > > have", etc. I'm sure it's possible to find lots of those such > > things... :-) > > Painful as it is for an Aussie, I have to defend the Pommies English here :-) > It sounds much less stilted with "have got", to my ears. It's not just that it sounds stilted to my ears, but that it suggests that those who have commit privilages are part of some elite group, particularly when read in context. I, we, really really really want to avoid that. [re: contractions] > Sounds fine here. We've avoided contractions in the current handbook/FAQ hoping that'll make it easier for non-native English readers. They're confusing because, unlike some languages, English doesn't formally define legal and illegal contractions (how often've you created a contraction of your own that you've doubted would've shown-up save in precious-few dictionaries?). -- tIM...HOEk OPTIMIZATION: the process of using many one-letter variables names hoping that the resultant code will run faster. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message