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To: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net>
Subject: Re: Clarification on the Handbook's Preface
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Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 19:58:49 +0200 (CEST)
From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@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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