From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Jun 19 1:38:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bfm.org (mail.bfm.org [216.127.218.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 413B737B401 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 01:38:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adam@whizkidtech.net) Received: from WhizKid (r31.bfm.org [216.127.220.127]) by mail.bfm.org (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-52399U2500L250S0V35) with SMTP id org; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 03:43:24 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20010619033547.00e3b100@mail85.pair.com> X-Sender: whizkid@mail85.pair.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 03:35:47 -0500 To: Chad David , freebsd-doc@freebsd.org From: "G. Adam Stanislav" Subject: Re: Style/Grammar/Writing Guidelines In-Reply-To: <20010614004143.A40501@colnta.acns.ab.ca> References: <3.0.6.32.20010614013121.00eb5100@mail85.pair.com> <3.0.6.32.20010614013121.00eb5100@mail85.pair.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 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