Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 10:53:02 -0600 From: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> To: Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org>, Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r318468 - in stable/11/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1: hardware readme Message-ID: <1495126382.93532.17.camel@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <83CC5C29-230F-4033-B2A6-90E81D403A79@adamw.org> References: <201705181624.v4IGOBPb013236@repo.freebsd.org> <83CC5C29-230F-4033-B2A6-90E81D403A79@adamw.org>
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On Thu, 2017-05-18 at 10:43 -0600, Adam Weinberger wrote: > > > > On 18 May, 2017, at 10:24, Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > > > Author: gjb > > Date: Thu May 18 16:24:11 2017 > > New Revision: 318468 > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/318468 > > > > Log: > > Fix grammar nits. > > > > Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation > > > > Modified: > > stable/11/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.xml > > stable/11/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/readme/article.xml > > > > Modified: stable/11/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859- > > 1/hardware/article.xml > > =================================================================== > > =========== > > --- stable/11/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.xml > > Thu May 18 16:24:10 2017 (r318467) > > +++ stable/11/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.xml > > Thu May 18 16:24:11 2017 (r318468) > > @@ -555,7 +555,7 @@ > > </itemizedlist> > > > > <para>The following Sun &ultrasparc; systems are not tested > > but > > - believed to be also supported by &os;:</para> > > + believed to also be supported by &os;:</para> > As long as we're picking grammar nits, you've split an infinitive > there. I think you want "believed also to be supported" or "believed > to be supported by &os; as well:". > > > > > > > <itemizedlist> > > <listitem> > > @@ -581,7 +581,7 @@ > > </itemizedlist> > > > > <para>The following Fujitsu &primepower; systems are not > > tested > > - but believed to be also supported by &os;:</para> > > + but believed to also be supported by &os;:</para> > Same here. > > # Adam There is no rule of grammar forbidding split infinitives, and the style opinion which disfavored them for many years is itself no longer in favor. Like the old "don't end a sentence with a preposition" this is just a thing many of us learned in school that turned out to be widespread prejudice, not an actual rule of grammar. -- Ian
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