Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 09:31:20 -0800 (PST) From: "Eugene M. Kim" <ab@astralblue.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Chris Costello <chris@FreeBSD.ORG>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man5 sysctl.conf.5 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0001160922030.2318-100000@home.astralblue.com> In-Reply-To: <20000116133434.K3413@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com>
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[redirected to -chat] On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: | Do you have any evidence? I suspect this is an impression that native | English speakers have about the language. In fact, I believe most | non-native speakers spend some time learning some contractions and may | be confused in some cases if they're omitted (though probably not in | this case). No, they (including me and my friends) are not confused if contractions aren't used. In almost all English classes (as a second language) they first teach `you are' then explain briefly about its contracted form `you're', not the opposite way. In fact, it makes almost no difference even to non-native speakers once they reach a certain level. I would, however, prefer non-contracted form in manual pages because they are public documents. Regards, Eugene -- Eugene M. Kim <ab@astralblue.com> "Is your music unpopular? Make it popular; make music which people like, or make people who like your music." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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