From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Oct 14 16:54:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5065537B401 for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 16:54:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a148.otenet.gr [212.205.215.148]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id f9ENsqv04969; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 02:54:52 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9ENsqc64878; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 02:54:52 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from charon@labs.gr) Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 02:54:51 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Dima Dorfman Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "it is" versus "it's" versus "its" Message-ID: <20011015025451.A64649@hades.hell.gr> References: <20011014231830.A59462@hades.hell.gr>; <20011014234320.3124D3E01@bazooka.trit.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011014234320.3124D3E01@bazooka.trit.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i X-GPG-Fingerprint: C1EB 0653 DB8B A557 3829 00F9 D60F 941A 3186 03B6 X-URL: http://labs.gr/~charon/ 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 Dima Dorfman wrote: > > "its" is the possessive form of "it"; "it's" is the contraction of "it > is". Thus, in the above, s/it's/its/ is appropriate. Also note that > using contractions in documentation is somewhat discouraged since it > can be harder to understand for non-native English speakers. That was what I thought, but wanted to verify with someone who feels more confident with their English fluency. I think I'll go over the docs tonight and check all those "it's" occurences that puzzled me this afternoon. Thanks for clarifying this Dima, -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message