Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 20:11:44 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man5 sysctl.conf.5 Message-ID: <20000116201144.C76584@florence.pavilion.net> In-Reply-To: <20000116110147.C25093@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20000116133434.K3413@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> <200001160515.VAA88306@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000116133434.K3413@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> <200001160830.BAA52797@harmony.village.org> <20000116110147.C25093@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 11:01:47AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 01:30:47AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > > For what it is worth, my High School Freshman English teacher taught > > us that contractions didn't belong in formal writing. > > I was taught this since Jr. High School. Maybe a difference between the > English education theory between different countries.? That's funny, because they didn't teach me that in England, in fact the opposite. Although they did have an annoying habit of saying that "there's no such word as can't" whenever I said "I can't do that". They weren't appeased when I changed that to 'cannot' either :) Joe -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: Take the red pill and we'll show you just how Technical Manager deep the rabbit hole goes. (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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