Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 13:56:15 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) Cc: Max Laier <max@love2party.net>, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, Wilko Bulte <wilko@freebsd.org>, cvs-src@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes Message-ID: <35347.1150120575@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 12 Jun 2006 15:39:34 %2B0200." <86irn6sdbd.fsf@xps.des.no>
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In message <86irn6sdbd.fsf@xps.des.no>, Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= writes: >> > The correct spelling is "counsel". >> but the correct quote is "council [sic]". This is indeed the correct way to quote when the original contains a spelling or grammer mistake. >If Winston Churchil had cleared his throat in the middle of a speech, >do you think historians would have recorded it as "but it may well be >the harrrrk end of the beginning?" Having just read Roy Jenkins excellent (read it!) Winston Chuchill biography I can assure you that not only would they do that, they would also try to track down which particular bit of his breakfast was responsible :-) Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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