From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 1 00:48:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C85D816A4CE; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 00:48:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net (sccrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.202.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E00443D5A; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 00:48:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@dougbarton.net) Received: from dougbarton.net (c-24-130-110-32.we.client2.attbi.com[24.130.110.32]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc11) with ESMTP id <20040601074756011009g8c0e> (Authid: domain_name_tsar); Tue, 1 Jun 2004 07:48:02 +0000 Message-ID: <40BC34AB.8000409@DougBarton.net> Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 00:47:55 -0700 From: Doug Barton User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040418 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= References: <200406010432.i514WC2k053069@repoman.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.83.6.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes fortunes2 X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 07:48:24 -0000 Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Doug Barton writes: > >> * Harry Truman had no actual middle name. The initial "S" was >> added to his name to make him appear more statesmanlike. Therefore >> it's not usually punctuated. > > > Wrong. His middle name is S because his parents wanted to honor both > his grandfathers (whose first names both began with S) without > favoring one over the other. I've also heard that this was the cover story that his handlers invented to explain why he added the "middle initial." Either way, if his middle name IS "S," then it's not an initial. > Truman himself wrote his name with a > period, and so does the Truman library. As the page you quoted says, it's done both ways (and was by Truman as well). I don't care about this enough to argue about it, but it was inconsistent before, and now it's consistent (at least in the two files I updated). As long as it stays consistent, I won't object. (BTW, the Truman library has a vested interest in making sure that he continues to look statesmanlike, so I don't consider them a neutral source of information.) :) Doug > http://www.trumanlibrary.org/speriod.htm > > DES -- If you're never wrong, you're not trying hard enough