Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 09:10:03 -0800 (PST) From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/32941: Minor grammatical fixes for intro.4 Message-ID: <200112181710.fBIHA3d24676@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/32941; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: Ceri <setantae@submonkey.net> Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/32941: Minor grammatical fixes for intro.4 Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 19:09:28 +0200 On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 06:04:08PM +0000, Ceri wrote: > > intro.4 could benefit from a couple of minor gramamatical fixups and spelling > errors (well, behaviour is the British way, but I think manpages should be in > American ?) > > -where a device driver emulates the behaviour of a device in software > +where a device driver emulates the behavior of a device in software Both are acceptable. > -on a terminal devices is likely to be not useful at all. > +on terminal devices is not likely to be useful. The "is likely to be not useful" -> "is not likely to be useful" change while mathematically equivalent, changes the accent, which IMO is important here. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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