From owner-cvs-all Sun Jan 16 0: 5: 3 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from yana.lemis.com (yana.lemis.com [192.109.197.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35DFA14D78; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 00:04:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: from mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (m21.chn.vsnl.net.in [202.54.43.226] (may be forged)) by yana.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA00382; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 18:34:45 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA03952; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 13:34:34 +0530 (IST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 13:34:34 +0530 From: Greg Lehey To: Chris Costello Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man5 sysctl.conf.5 Message-ID: <20000116133434.K3413@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <200001160515.VAA88306@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200001160515.VAA88306@freefall.freebsd.org>; from chris@FreeBSD.org on Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 09:15:49PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Saturday, 15 January 2000 at 21:15:49 -0800, Chris Costello wrote: > chris 2000/01/15 21:15:49 PST > > Modified files: > share/man/man5 sysctl.conf.5 > Log: > Replace a conjunction "you're" with "you are". This makes > reading by non-native English speakers a little bit easier, 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). Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message