Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 00:58:02 +0200 From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de> To: doc@freebsd.org Cc: bob@bgpbook.com Subject: Minor 'historic' flaw in FreeBSD article "Bootstrapping Vinum" Message-ID: <20020527225802.GA31343@merlin.emma.line.org>
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Hello,
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I just read through the Bootstrapping Vinum article, and found a minor
flaw in the Latin part of the "Vinum History" section (1.4 in rev 1.28).
Still present in CVS rev. 1.7 as of 2002-05-16T01:42:03Z.
It claims that "vino" (of: "in vino veritas") were the accusative form
of "vinum" (the wine), but it isn't. It's the ablative form. As vinum is
neuter, accusative and nominative are identical: vinum.
In context of the preposition "in" these forms mean:
in + <noun in ablative case> -> location (where?)
in + <noun in accusative case> -> direction (where to?)
So may I kindly ask that the Bootstrapping Vinum article be corrected.
Patch against v1.7 doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vinum/ below, to apply with
"patch -p1". It also corrects that in Latin, words are not usually
capitalized unless at the beginning of the sentence. (At least, so I
have been told at school ;-)
--- /tmp/article.sgml.orig Tue May 28 00:51:20 2002
+++ /tmp/article.sgml Tue May 28 00:52:04 2002
@@ -287,9 +287,9 @@
<para>&vinum.ap; was inspired by the Veritas Volume Manager, but
was not derived from it.
The name is a play on that history and the Latin adage
- <foreignphrase>In Vino Veritas</foreignphrase>
- (<foreignphrase>Vino</foreignphrase> is the accusative form of
- <foreignphrase>Vinum</foreignphrase>).
+ <foreignphrase>in vino veritas</foreignphrase>
+ (<foreignphrase>vino</foreignphrase> is the ablative form of
+ <foreignphrase>vinum</foreignphrase>).
Literally translated, that is <quote>Truth lies in wine</quote> hinting that
drunkards have a hard time lying.
</para>
--
Matthias Andree
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