From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 20 9:14:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0786937B402 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 09:14:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16daJr-0004UX-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:14:15 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id B349713040 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 18:14:14 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 6002) id 5AC5E22590; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 18:14:14 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 18:14:14 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: FreeBSD Question List Subject: Re: Slang in src/usr.bin/netstat/inet.c? Message-ID: <20020220171414.GF3600@raggedclown.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 12:27:02PM +0200, Patrick O'Reilly wrote: > > Is because spelt like this for a particular reason? > > > > %ident /usr/src/usr.bin/netstat/inet.c ; grep -n cuz > /usr/src/usr.bin/netstat/inet.c > > /usr/src/usr.bin/netstat/inet.c: > > $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/netstat/inet.c,v 1.37.2.9 2001/12/17 > 20:03:59 jlemon Exp $ > > 632: "\t%lu error%s not generated 'cuz old message was > icmp\n"); > > > > I think it's called 'poetic license' :) > I would submit a PR to get the spelling corrected, seriously. Slang/colloquialisms are unfair to people whose mother tongue is not english. Or get it changed to: "We feel unbehoven from this to make from faults a progeny, it mattereth not one one wit, for mark yee well that afore this came a predecessor that we appelled an icmp". -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message