Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2002 09:21:59 -0700 From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: Ross Lippert <ripper@eskimo.com>, ac14806t@st.nagaoka-ct.ac.jp, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Question] A `-h' flag for ls(1) in relnotes (RELENG_4) Message-ID: <200206021621.g52GLxXP037765@intruder.bmah.org> In-Reply-To: <20020601184640.GB414@hades.hell.gr> References: <20020601162910.GB566@hades.hell.gr> <200206011636.JAA22996@eskimo.com> <20020601184640.GB414@hades.hell.gr>
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If memory serves me right, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2002-06-01 09:36 -0700, Ross Lippert wrote: > > >My intuition says that there are two ways to write this: > > > three or less > > > less than four > > Hey if someone can show me documentation that supports this usage, > > then I'll stop worrying about it, but for until that happens, I'll > > think that fewer is what you should apply to whole numbers and > > less only applies to continuous. > > > > three or fewer > > > > fewer than four > > I'll have to dig some English grammar books that have been rusting in > bookshelves for ages. See, this is why I love this list... it makes > things like these books, that keep aging slowly in my house, to be > useful again! > > Seriously now, I don't know. I'll have to check out a grammar/syntax > book to make sure what the 'yours truly & pedantically anal-retentive' > way of writing this is ;) I'm going with "fewer than four". Noting that we're under a release deadline, I am at the moment less concerned than getting the grammar exactly right than I am about getting the factual information "as close to correct as possible". :-) Thanks, all! Bruce. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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