Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 11:30:43 -0400 (EDT) From: patseal@hyperhost.net To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: misc/12965: Spelling errors: /usr/share/games/fortune/fortunes Message-ID: <19990804153043.6B770137F06@foobar.foobar.yi.org>
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>Number: 12965
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: Spelling errors: /usr/share/games/fortune/fortunes
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Aug 4 08:40:03 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Patrick Seal
>Release: FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
Just a few spelling errors. I used a diff of Slackware's 4.0
fortunes just as a reference. They had more problems than
ours, however.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Here's the diff:
--- fortunes.orig Wed Aug 4 10:39:49 1999
+++ fortunes Wed Aug 4 11:12:28 1999
@@ -2157,7 +2157,7 @@
Ludwig van Beethoven being jeered by 50,000 sports fans for
finishing second in the Irish jig competition.
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-"Boy, life takes a long time to live
+Boy, life takes a long time to live
-- Steven Wright
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Boy, n.:
@@ -8537,7 +8537,7 @@
-- Sniglets, "Rich Hall & Friends"
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Magpie, n.:
- A bird whose theivish disposition suggested to someone that it
+ A bird whose thievish disposition suggested to someone that it
might be taught to talk.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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@@ -8615,9 +8615,9 @@
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Man, n.:
An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks
-e is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His hief
-occupation is extermination of other animals and his own pecies, which,
-however, multiplies with such insistent apidity as to infest the whole
+he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief
+occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which,
+however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole
habitable earth and Canada.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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