From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 3 0:43: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from postfix1-2.free.fr (postfix1-2.free.fr [213.228.0.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F068037B403 for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 00:42:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bluerondo.a.la.turk (nas-cbv-6-9-137.dial.proxad.net [213.228.9.137]) by postfix1-2.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16A35AB221 for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 09:42:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 735 invoked by uid 1001); 3 Sep 2001 07:40:49 -0000 Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 09:40:49 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Michael Lucas 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> Mail-Followup-To: Michael Lucas , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <999306309.3b903445f411a@webmail.neomedia.it> <20010901095417.A618@lpt.ens.fr> <999474828.3b92c68c38136@webmail.neomedia.it> <20010902205050.A21613@blackhelicopters.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010902205050.A21613@blackhelicopters.org>; from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org on Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 08:50:50PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.4-PRERELEASE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message