Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 14:11:49 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/36462: dev.handbook grammar nit "try and" Message-ID: <20020329141149.A19933@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <200203291910.g2TJA2j05806@freefall.freebsd.org>; from swear@blarg.net on Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 11:10:02AM -0800 References: <200203291910.g2TJA2j05806@freefall.freebsd.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 11:10:02AM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Like I said, it's a "nit". One hears it often and so also sees it in > e-mail, but it's in the same category as "ain't" -- much frowned upon by > the grammarians, and seldom seen in professionally-editted text. My > American Heritage Dictionary is nearly 30 years old, but 79% of their > "Usage Panel" found an example containing "to try and force compliance" > to be "unacceptable". My 1997 edition drops that to 65%. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8pOalXY6L6fI4GtQRAmShAJ0UYAh38uNVh85HwGfcGvwmfu4HLQCg2EXc YWDiJddjmNoKV3PT9f2OLeg= =v81z -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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