Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 18:14:14 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> To: FreeBSD Question List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Slang in src/usr.bin/netstat/inet.c? Message-ID: <20020220171414.GF3600@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <NDBBIMKICMDGDMNOOCAIAEAJECAA.patrick@mip.co.za> References: <NDBBIMKICMDGDMNOOCAIAEAJECAA.patrick@mip.co.za>
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On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 12:27:02PM +0200, Patrick O'Reilly wrote: > > Is because spelt like this for a particular reason? > > > > %ident /usr/src/usr.bin/netstat/inet.c ; grep -n cuz > /usr/src/usr.bin/netstat/inet.c > > /usr/src/usr.bin/netstat/inet.c: > > $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/netstat/inet.c,v 1.37.2.9 2001/12/17 > 20:03:59 jlemon Exp $ > > 632: "\t%lu error%s not generated 'cuz old message was > icmp\n"); > > > > I think it's called 'poetic license' :) > I would submit a PR to get the spelling corrected, seriously. Slang/colloquialisms are unfair to people whose mother tongue is not english. Or get it changed to: "We feel unbehoven from this to make from faults a progeny, it mattereth not one one wit, for mark yee well that afore this came a predecessor that we appelled an icmp". -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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