From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Aug 12 19:47: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B26C037B40B; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 19:46:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id B5ADC6ACBC; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:17:26 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:17:26 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Garrett Wollman Cc: Ruslan Ermilov , doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen getdiskbyname.3 getpwent.3 src/lib/libc/regex regex.3 src/lib/libc/sys clock_gettime.2 mlock.2 send.2 src/lib/libcam cam_cdbparse.3 src/lib/libdisk libdisk.3 src/lib/libedit editrc.5 src/lib/libm/common_source ... Message-ID: <20010813121726.S48115@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200108101345.f7ADjaX90494@freefall.freebsd.org> <200108101509.f7AF93d32924@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20010810183000.A70373@sunbay.com> <200108101849.f7AIneH35664@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200108101849.f7AIneH35664@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu on Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 02:49:40PM -0400 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF 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 Friday, 10 August 2001 at 14:49:40 -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < said: > >> Additionally, under the "eg" article of that same dictionary, I see: > >> "popular pets, eg dogs, cats and rabbits." > > Which dictionary? There appears to be a fashion in certain > Rightpondian circles never to put periods in abbreviations, but the > manual pages are written in Leftpondian English where doing so is > almost never correct. I'd say ``appeal to irrelevant authority''. Rightpondian? Leftpondian? US and Australia respectively? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message