From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 16 9:31:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from astralblue.com (adsl-209-76-108-39.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [209.76.108.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EB3B14CA3; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 09:31:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ab@astralblue.com) Received: from localhost (ab@localhost) by astralblue.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA02344; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 09:31:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ab@astralblue.com) Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 09:31:20 -0800 (PST) From: "Eugene M. Kim" To: Greg Lehey Cc: Chris Costello , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man5 sysctl.conf.5 In-Reply-To: <20000116133434.K3413@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [redirected to -chat] On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: | Do you have any evidence? I suspect this is an impression that native | English speakers have about the language. In fact, I believe most | non-native speakers spend some time learning some contractions and may | be confused in some cases if they're omitted (though probably not in | this case). No, they (including me and my friends) are not confused if contractions aren't used. In almost all English classes (as a second language) they first teach `you are' then explain briefly about its contracted form `you're', not the opposite way. In fact, it makes almost no difference even to non-native speakers once they reach a certain level. I would, however, prefer non-contracted form in manual pages because they are public documents. Regards, Eugene -- Eugene M. Kim "Is your music unpopular? Make it popular; make music which people like, or make people who like your music." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message