From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Oct 13 15: 9:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mta06-svc.ntlworld.com (mta06-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21C2E37B40F for ; Sat, 13 Oct 2001 15:09:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eborcom.com ([62.253.89.191]) by mta06-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20011013220947.QBVY268.mta06-svc.ntlworld.com@eborcom.com> for ; Sat, 13 Oct 2001 23:09:47 +0100 Received: (qmail 60153 invoked by uid 1001); 13 Oct 2001 22:09:04 -0000 Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 23:09:04 +0100 From: Tom Hukins To: Salvo Bartolotta Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Minor terminology problem Message-ID: <20011013230904.A60139@eborcom.com> Mail-Followup-To: Tom Hukins , Salvo Bartolotta , freebsd-doc@freebsd.org References: <1003005546.3bc8a66a7e844@webmail.neomedia.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <1003005546.3bc8a66a7e844@webmail.neomedia.it>; from bartequi@neomedia.it on Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 10:39:06PM +0200 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 Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 10:39:06PM +0200, Salvo Bartolotta wrote: > Hello Houston^W (natively) English-speaking FreeBSD doc'ers, > > May I ask which of the following is [more] appropriate? > > a) "(in order) to store identification information on(=concerning) your > sources" > > b) "(in order) to store identifying information on(=concerning) your sources. My opinion: Neither. Go for "in order to store information identifying your sources". This means you use one less word (on). Also if you think of it in terms of clauses, you are storing information, and what that information does is identify your sources. If this isn't clear, let me know, but it seems natural enough to me. > Should I prefer "about" to "on" in this specific instance (if it matters at > all)? Yes, I'd go for about if I weren't to remove that word, but I can't explain why. Information is about something, I suppose.. Hope that helps - if not, let me know. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message