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Date:      Mon, 3 Sep 2001 09:40:49 +0200
From:      Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
To:        Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: docs/30203: description of security profiles in FAQ is just plain wrong
Message-ID:  <20010903094049.A713@lpt.ens.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20010902205050.A21613@blackhelicopters.org>; from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org on Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 08:50:50PM -0400
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Michael Lucas said on Sep  2, 2001 at 20:50:50:
> 
> Oh, dear...
> 
> You know, all I wanted to accomplish was something better than what
> was there.  Yes, I was technically correct, but it's not worth the
> electrons to argue over, especially when it sounds OK as is.
> 
> I have yet to see a human brain coredump over a mismatched verb.

No, but arguing about grammar is *fun*  :-)

Also, computational linguists (eg, people who write natural language
parsers, etc) have to worry about just such petty details: it often
makes the difference to what the sentence really means.  Maybe some
day it will be relevant to FreeBSD too...

R

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