Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2017 19:23:11 -0700 From: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>, "Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya)" <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> Cc: Hiroki Sato <hrs@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, ngie@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r314585 - head/usr.sbin/syslogd Message-ID: <1488594191.69705.13.camel@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201703040110.v241AYnh073650@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> References: <201703040110.v241AYnh073650@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
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On Fri, 2017-03-03 at 17:10 -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ] > > > > > > > > > > On Mar 3, 2017, at 15:14, Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya) <yaneurabeya@ > > > gmail.com> wrote: > > ? > > > > > > > > Actually, accepts is better. Although it isn?t clear by itself, > > > the sentence fragment is describing the -a option, which is > > > singular, not plural. Here?s the sentence in full context: > > > > > > source packet must > > > belong to. A > > > service of `*' > > > accepts UDP > > > packets from any > > > source port. > > Correction: it?s describing `service`, which is still singular. > > -Ngie > Tongue in cheek: Now my head hurts!!! I let this stir around in my > grey > space for a minute and went wait, adding (s) to accept does not make > it > plurar. This is one of those really screwed up situations that is > just > a mess. So I had to google. AmE would like us to use just accept in > this specific case. BrE would rather see accepts. It has to do with > some thing they call present subjunctive. If you want to make your > head hurt too google up "accept or accepts" > The verb (accepts) in this case does not occur in a subjunctive clause, the sentence is a simple indicative statement, so any rules about how to conjugate the verb for a subjunctive don't apply here. -- Ian
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