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Date:      Wed, 13 Jun 2001 16:16:02 -0700
From:      "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Eric Ogren <eogren@stanford.edu>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, Chern Lee <chern@meow.osd.bsdi.com>
Subject:   Re: Style/Grammar/Writing Guidelines 
Message-ID:  <200106132316.f5DNG2365398@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010613160240.jhb@FreeBSD.org> 
References:  <XFMail.010613160240.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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If memory serves me right, John Baldwin wrote:

> Recall that the Handbook is formally published as an actual book that will
> hopefuly be put on the shelf at your local bookstore.  With that in mind, usi
> ng
> formal English is quite appropriate.

Appropriate, yes, but not required, IMHO.  I seem to remember from my 
technical writing class in college that this could be (is?) something 
of a religious issue.  (Well, that's not what the instructor called it, 
but that's the translation into contemporary geek-speak.)

Bruce.



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