Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 11:09:15 -0600 From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org> To: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> Cc: Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@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: <C9BBAFAD-93BE-40AC-B81D-5253E35733BB@adamw.org> In-Reply-To: <1495126382.93532.17.camel@freebsd.org> References: <201705181624.v4IGOBPb013236@repo.freebsd.org> <83CC5C29-230F-4033-B2A6-90E81D403A79@adamw.org> <1495126382.93532.17.camel@freebsd.org>
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> On 18 May, 2017, at 10:53, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote: >=20 > On Thu, 2017-05-18 at 10:43 -0600, Adam Weinberger wrote: >>>=20 >>> On 18 May, 2017, at 10:24, Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >>>=20 >>> Author: gjb >>> Date: Thu May 18 16:24:11 2017 >>> New Revision: 318468 >>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/318468 >>>=20 >>> Log: >>> Fix grammar nits. >>>=20 >>> Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation >>>=20 >>> Modified: >>> stable/11/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.xml >>> stable/11/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/readme/article.xml >>>=20 >>> Modified: stable/11/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859- >>> 1/hardware/article.xml >>> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D >>> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D >>> --- stable/11/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.xml=09 >>> Thu May 18 16:24:10 2017 (r318467) >>> +++ stable/11/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.xml=09 >>> Thu May 18 16:24:11 2017 (r318468) >>> @@ -555,7 +555,7 @@ >>> </itemizedlist> >>>=20 >>> <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:". >>=20 >>>=20 >>>=20 >>> <itemizedlist> >>> <listitem> >>> @@ -581,7 +581,7 @@ >>> </itemizedlist> >>>=20 >>> <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. >>=20 >> # Adam >=20 > 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. I did not know that! If Mr. Gould's 6th grade English class was a lie, I = just don't know who to trust in this world anymore. # Adam --=20 Adam Weinberger adamw@adamw.org https://www.adamw.org
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