Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 00:41:43 -0600 From: Chad David <davidc@acns.ab.ca> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Style/Grammar/Writing Guidelines Message-ID: <20010614004143.A40501@colnta.acns.ab.ca> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20010614013121.00eb5100@mail85.pair.com>; from adam@whizkidtech.net on Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 01:31:21AM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0106131439170.43965-100000@meow.osd.bsdi.com > <3.0.6.32.20010614013121.00eb5100@mail85.pair.com>
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On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 01:31:21AM -0500, G. Adam Stanislav 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. > > Ouch! No, please no! > > >Suggestions, please? I like "we". That is what Richard Stevens used, and I always liked his tone. Just my opinion. Chad To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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