Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 03:35:47 -0500 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net> To: Chad David <davidc@acns.ab.ca>, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Style/Grammar/Writing Guidelines Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20010619033547.00e3b100@mail85.pair.com> In-Reply-To: <20010614004143.A40501@colnta.acns.ab.ca> References: <3.0.6.32.20010614013121.00eb5100@mail85.pair.com> <Pine.BSF.4.31.0106131439170.43965-100000@meow.osd.bsdi.com > <3.0.6.32.20010614013121.00eb5100@mail85.pair.com>
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At 00:41 2001-06-14 -0600, Chad David wrote: >> At 14:53 13-06-2001 -0700, Chern Lee wrote: >> >Reference to the reader as "you" is informal. Changing this to "One" or >> >"The user" sounds very fitting to me. >> >> >Suggestions, please? > >I like "we". That is what Richard Stevens used, and I always liked >his tone. I like it too. In fact we use it a lot. :) Actually, back where I come from (Central Europe), we were taught in no uncertain terms to refer to ourselves as we in any scholarly writing. We even had a name for it: Pluralis maiestatis. Cheers, Adam --- http://phonecowboy.com/registrar/twist/ finds a good domain for you and checks for its existence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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