Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 21:22:16 -0700 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org> Cc: George Neville-Neil <gnn@neville-neil.com>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r300003 - head/share/man/man4 Message-ID: <2483063.Wyogl0a3lX@ralph.baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <20160517235930.GA61770@eureka.lemis.com> References: <201605170440.u4H4e1Fe082375@repo.freebsd.org> <E3BB859D-39B3-4DF7-82CD-E2A33E497281@neville-neil.com> <20160517235930.GA61770@eureka.lemis.com>
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On Wednesday, May 18, 2016 09:59:30 AM Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > Yes. This wasn't a new change, just reverting a change made in > r235317. You'll notice that the expression is in quotes, indicating > that it's, well, a quotation and not to be taken literally. And if > you quote, you should quote correctly. I stumbled across this by > accident doing Something Serious, and it grated. I had read the quotes to mean it was colloquial language, not necessarily a literary quotation. Had the commit message said "restore correct quotation" as similar commits to fortune have used in the past that would have helped with the context as opposed to "Correct incorrect grammar" and then using a word that doesn't exist in English. > What I have learnt from this exchange is: > > - Many Americans don't know the expression, though it's American. There is quite a bit of literature in the world American and non. > - Nobody seems to care that the rest of the page is out of date. Actually not true, but of the things to fix in the manpage, "grown" vs "growed" isn't exactly the most urgent thing to spend time on. > - People seem to have lost any remnant sense of humour. I think a more accurate commit message might have averted much of the reaction. -- John Baldwin
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