From owner-freebsd-doc Tue May 28 19:54:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (krusty.dt.E-Technik.Uni-Dortmund.DE [129.217.163.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB86537B407; Tue, 28 May 2002 19:54:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from merlin.emma.line.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91B96A3831; Wed, 29 May 2002 04:54:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: by merlin.emma.line.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 1A45926513; Wed, 29 May 2002 04:54:48 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 04:54:48 +0200 From: Matthias Andree To: Wouter Van Hemel Cc: Bob Van Valzah , Giorgos Keramidas , Matthias Andree , freebsd-doc , Grog@Lemis.Com Subject: Re: Minor 'historic' flaw in FreeBSD article "Bootstrapping Vinum" Message-ID: <20020529025448.GA32765@merlin.emma.line.org> References: <20020528222333.K25512-100000@hades> <1022625361.32852.18.camel@NewStorm.WhiteBarn.Com> <1022636075.28350.49.camel@cocaine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1022636075.28350.49.camel@cocaine> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 29 May 2002, Wouter Van Hemel wrote: > It's either nominative or accusative. Ablative would be 'vino', as in 'in > vino veritas', since the location is static, i.e. it's not about the > motion but the position. > > What is your real question, if it involves latin, maybe I can help out... The currently available "Bootstrapping vinum" document claims "vino" was accusative, but it's ablative (could be dative as well, but not after the preposition "in"). I'm asking for a correction, and you just confirmed that. :-) -- Matthias Andree Aliena vitia in oculis habemus, a tergo nostra. (Seneca, "de ira") To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message