From owner-cvs-all Sun Jan 16 0:30:59 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 222EA14D78; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 00:30:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA57422; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 01:30:51 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id BAA52797; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 01:30:48 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200001160830.BAA52797@harmony.village.org> To: Greg Lehey Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man5 sysctl.conf.5 Cc: Chris Costello , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 16 Jan 2000 13:34:34 +0530." <20000116133434.K3413@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> References: <20000116133434.K3413@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> <200001160515.VAA88306@freefall.freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 01:30:47 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk In message <20000116133434.K3413@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Greg Lehey writes: : Do you have any evidence? I suspect this is an impression that native : English speakers have about the language. In fact, I believe most : non-native speakers spend some time learning some contractions and may : be confused in some cases if they're omitted (though probably not in : this case). For what it is worth, my High School Freshman English teacher taught us that contractions didn't belong in formal writing. It took me years to recover and use them in email :-) Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message