Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:17:26 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen getdiskbyname.3 getpwent.3 src/lib/libc/regex regex.3 src/lib/libc/sys clock_gettime.2 mlock.2 send.2 src/lib/libcam cam_cdbparse.3 src/lib/libdisk libdisk.3 src/lib/libedit editrc.5 src/lib/libm/common_source ... Message-ID: <20010813121726.S48115@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200108101849.f7AIneH35664@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu on Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 02:49:40PM -0400 References: <200108101345.f7ADjaX90494@freefall.freebsd.org> <200108101509.f7AF93d32924@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20010810183000.A70373@sunbay.com> <200108101849.f7AIneH35664@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Friday, 10 August 2001 at 14:49:40 -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Fri, 10 Aug 2001 18:30:00 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> said: > >> Additionally, under the "eg" article of that same dictionary, I see: > >> "popular pets, eg dogs, cats and rabbits." > > Which dictionary? There appears to be a fashion in certain > Rightpondian circles never to put periods in abbreviations, but the > manual pages are written in Leftpondian English where doing so is > almost never correct. I'd say ``appeal to irrelevant authority''. Rightpondian? Leftpondian? US and Australia respectively? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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