From owner-cvs-all Sun Jan 16 0:13:20 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mta2.rcsntx.swbell.net (mta2.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.30.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7659B15252; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 00:13:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@holly.dyndns.org) Received: from holly.dyndns.org ([216.62.157.60]) by mta2.rcsntx.swbell.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.1999.09.16.21.57.p8) with ESMTP id <0FOF0051L5I1HW@mta2.rcsntx.swbell.net>; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 02:13:13 -0600 (CST) Received: (from chris@localhost) by holly.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA49192; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 02:13:06 -0600 (CST envelope-from chris) X-URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org/~chris/ Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 02:13:05 -0600 From: Chris Costello Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man5 sysctl.conf.5 In-reply-to: <20000116133434.K3413@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> To: Greg Lehey Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: chris@calldei.com Message-id: <20000116021305.H43216@holly.calldei.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.4i References: <200001160515.VAA88306@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000116133434.K3413@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sun, Jan 16, 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: > Do you have any evidence? I suspect this is an impression that native > English speakers have about the language. In fact, I believe most > non-native speakers spend some time learning some contractions and may > be confused in some cases if they're omitted (though probably not in > this case). I don't have evidence, but it seems to make sense. Really it's going by what other people have been saying about docs, and what's in the doc project guide: http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/docproj-primer/writing-style.html -- |Chris Costello |On a clear disk you can seek forever... `--------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message