From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Oct 5 18:14:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B0E537B502 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 18:14:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from foo.osd.bsdi.com (root@foo.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.137]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e961ESi23446; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 18:14:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@foo.osd.bsdi.com) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by foo.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e961C3O42929; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 18:12:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20001004.13402300@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 18:12:03 -0700 (PDT) Organization: BSD, Inc. From: John Baldwin To: Salvo Bartolotta Subject: RE: little translation problems Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 04-Oct-00 Salvo Bartolotta wrote: > Dear FreeBSD English-speaking doc'ers, > > I am working on the translation of the handbook into Italian, and I am > confused WRT the following expression (found in The Cutting Edge): > > "FreeBSD-CURRENT is made generally available for 3 primary interest > groups:" ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > ^^^^^^^ Ugh, this is too wordy and confusing to native English speakers. :) I would reword it to say this: FreeBSD-CURRENT is useful for 3 main groups: > Here "primary interest groups" means: > > 1) primary groups of interested people; that is, three groups of > interested people, each having specific (technical) interest(s); > > 2) groups of primary importance/interest, therefore the expression > would mean "main groups"; > > 3) neither of 1) or 2) (??) It means 2) as best as I can read it. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.Baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message