Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 19:58:49 +0200 (CEST) From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it> To: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Clarification on the Handbook's Preface Message-ID: <1020535129.3cd421595ac55@webmail.neomedia.it>
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> From doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/preface/preface.sgml :
>
> <term><emphasis>Chapter 1, Introduction</emphasis></term>
> <listitem>
> <para>Introduces FreeBSD to a new user. It describes the
> history of the FreeBSD Project, the goals, development model,
> and everything else they've done for the FreeBSD project.</para>
> </listitem>
>
> Does anybody else want to join me in a rousing chorus of "What?!" ?
> The last line doesn't seem to make any sense whatsoever, and I can't fathom
> what it's trying to get at.
<hermeneuo>
... everything else they (= The FreeBSD Project [wonderful IMHO :-)] people)
have done for the FreeBSD project [the project "proper": i.e. the work on the
OS, its documentation,...].
</hermeneuo>
If my interpretation is correct, the sentence might be changed e.g. to:
<para>Introduces FreeBSD to a new user. It describes the history of the
FreeBSD Project, in particular the goals and the development model,
as well as everything else the FreeBSD Project
{people,community,team,developers,...} has/have[1] done for the
project.</para>
Another example:
s/The FreeBSD Project people[2]/the people[2] gravitating towards the Project/
e.g. "as well as everything else done by the [large] [international] [virtual]
community gravitating towards the FreeBSD Project[3].
[1] plural or singular according to the previous choice.
{people,community,team,...).
[2] {people, community, team,...}
[3] "End weight" on the community gravitating towards the FreeBSD Project :-)
<warning>
I am not a native speaker. My examples might sound artificial or make no
sense whatsoever.
</warning>
Just my Euro 0.02
Salvo
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