Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 10:39:09 -0800 From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Sweeps through docs (was Re: docs/36462: dev.handbook grammar nit "try and") Message-ID: <200203291839.g2TId9DH067281@intruder.bmah.org> In-Reply-To: <200203291650.g2TGo8n74375@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200203291650.g2TGo8n74375@freefall.freebsd.org>
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If memory serves me right, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > Good catch. There are many places that use " try and" as you can see from t > he > following. Is "try and" an acceptable thing in English syntax, or should we > go > through the docs and eliminate it? IANAProfessionalWriter, but I'm pretty sure it's not proper English, although it's fairly common, colloquial, spoken American. :-) The point I really wanted to make is that while people are doing sweeps through doc/ for grammar nits, minor SGML fixups, and so on, I'd encourage people to try these fixes on src/release/doc/ as well. (Giorgos has actually been doing this, BTW, which I appreciate.) Thanks all! Bruce. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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