From owner-freebsd-doc Mon May 27 15:58:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (krusty.dt.E-Technik.Uni-Dortmund.DE [129.217.163.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60B7037B403 for ; Mon, 27 May 2002 15:58:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from merlin.emma.line.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 491B6A3831 for ; Tue, 28 May 2002 00:58:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: by merlin.emma.line.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id DC3621E8F3; Tue, 28 May 2002 00:58:02 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 00:58:02 +0200 From: Matthias Andree 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, Please note I'm not subscribed to FreeBSD's doc mailing list, so Cc: replies as appropriate. 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 + -> location (where?) in + -> 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 @@ &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 - In Vino Veritas - (Vino is the accusative form of - Vinum). + in vino veritas + (vino is the ablative form of + vinum). Literally translated, that is Truth lies in wine hinting that drunkards have a hard time lying. -- Matthias Andree To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message