From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Dec 24 2:51:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (mta03-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02AE437B405 for ; Mon, 24 Dec 2001 02:51:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from hukins.hn.org ([62.255.99.221]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.23 201-229-121-123-20010418) with SMTP id <20011224105135.JWRI19962.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@hukins.hn.org> for ; Mon, 24 Dec 2001 10:51:35 +0000 Received: (qmail 78520 invoked by uid 1001); 24 Dec 2001 10:51:42 -0000 Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 10:51:42 +0000 From: Tom Hukins To: Kent Stewart Cc: Andrew McKay , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/33137: Fix typos in X section of the FAQ Message-ID: <20011224105142.B78242@eborcom.com> Mail-Followup-To: Tom Hukins , Kent Stewart , Andrew McKay , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200112240950.fBO9o1Z86277@freefall.freebsd.org> <3C26FB81.7010907@owt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3C26FB81.7010907@owt.com>; from kstewart@owt.com on Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 01:55:13AM -0800 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 Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 01:55:13AM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: > > I agree. I have always been taught that you are not supposed to use > contractions such as "doesn't" in formal documents. Yes, and the reason this typo ("doest") crept into the docs in the first place was due to an attempt to remove contractions. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message