Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 13:00:41 -0700 (PDT) From: fox@vader.aacc.cc.md.us To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/66540: [patch] share/man/man4/ppbus.4 wording nits Message-ID: <200405112000.i4BK0fdr002834@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/66540; it has been noted by GNATS. From: fox@vader.aacc.cc.md.us To: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@chello.cz> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/66540: [patch] share/man/man4/ppbus.4 wording nits Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 15:58:53 -0400 (EDT) On Tue, 11 May 2004, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > # fox@vader.aacc.cc.md.us / 2004-05-11 10:38:23 -0700: > > --- share/man/man4/ppbus.4.orig Fri May 7 07:43:07 2004 > > +++ share/man/man4/ppbus.4 Fri May 7 08:06:15 2004 > > -Any transfer is defined as a finite state automate. > > +Any transfer is defined as a finite state machine. > > s/automate/automaton/ would be... more faithful to the original? :) > (ESL, so I might be babbling) Mebbe, but even then, I'd go for "finite state machine" as the more common English idiom. This is tech writing, not high litterature that has to be translated painstakingly for beauty and fidelity. :-) -- "I'd ask if you'd found the right sort of isolated wasteland for your citadel of dread yet, but that would be a silly question; you're in Utah, after all." --ESR to Darl McBride (Chief Excessive Ossifier of Squandered Clues Obstination), in http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/mcbride.html
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