From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Mar 26 04:54:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA01355 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 04:54:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (suebla.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA01315 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 04:53:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA15044; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 23:53:36 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <19980326235332.07015@welearn.com.au> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 23:53:32 +1100 From: Sue Blake To: ac199@hwcn.org Cc: Sean Kelly , nik@iii.co.uk, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [REVIEW] Changes to the DocProj web pages References: <35192AB1.43F399D@plutotech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: ; from Tim Vanderhoek on Wed, Mar 25, 1998 at 11:55:58PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Mar 25, 1998 at 11:55:58PM -0500, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > Yes, and other things such as a farely interesting spelling of > fairly. "have got commit privs" should probably be just "have > commit privs", and "Others haven't got ...": "Others don't > have", etc. I'm sure it's possible to find lots of those such > things... :-) Painful as it is for an Aussie, I have to defend the Pommies English here :-) It sounds much less stilted with "have got", to my ears. > 1) Are we going to start using contractions again? In a similar > vein, does "folks" translate well? It sounds fine to me, but it > could be a bit dialect-specific, maybe? Sounds fine here. > 4) So long as someone's willing to talk style, may I submit that > series such as "apple, job, and day" use a comma before the > "and". This is probably not what many of the outmoded old-timers > were taught back in the day, but it's like totally way sexier. Call me an outmoded old-timer :-) Basically I don't think these things matter a great deal either way. National differences mean they'll sound better to some, worse to others, whether they are changed or not. Only internal consistency is important. As far as the content and structure, it looks great! -- Regards, -*Sue*- find / -name "*.conf" |more To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message