Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 03:38:10 -0800 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>, ceri@submonkey.net Cc: wilko@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: www/en index.xsl Message-ID: <200402160338.10575.wes@softweyr.com> In-Reply-To: <20040215.152553.55627525.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <200402151842.i1FIgmcp044836@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040215190329.GQ8821@submonkey.net> <20040215.152553.55627525.imp@bsdimp.com>
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On Sunday 15 February 2004 14:25, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <20040215190329.GQ8821@submonkey.net>
>
> Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> writes:
> : On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 10:42:48AM -0800, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> : > wilko 2004/02/15 10:42:48 PST
> : >
> : > FreeBSD doc repository
> : >
> : > Modified files:
> : > en index.xsl
> : > Log:
> : > A pair of floppies -> a couple of floppies.
> : >
> : > A pair equals 2 and 2 floppies are not sufficient anymore.
> :
> : "A couple" is numerically equivalent to "a pair".
>
> A couple isn't quite the same as a pair. A secondary meaning for a
> couple is the same as a few. "Give me a couple of those biscuits" is
> likely to get you 3 biscuits as 2 in many parts of the US.
Funny, I've lived just about everywhere in the US (except Texas) and "a
couple" has always meant two. "A few" would be 2 to 5, several would be 4 or
5 to maybe a dozen, etc., all the way up to "buttload" which is rougly "more
than a man can carry."
2 or more seems to be what we really want here. A parenthetical "X floppies
for i386 as of this writing" will help the reader to grasp the scale at some
ill-specified point in time.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this bikeshed?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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