Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 13:30:22 -0700 (PDT) From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/66540: [patch] share/man/man4/ppbus.4 wording nits Message-ID: <200405112030.i4BKUM2L007914@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/66540; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> To: fox@vader.aacc.cc.md.us Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/66540: [patch] share/man/man4/ppbus.4 wording nits Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 22:27:13 +0200 --5vNYLRcllDrimb99 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2004.05.11 13:00:41 -0700, fox@vader.aacc.cc.md.us wrote: > On Tue, 11 May 2004, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > =20 > > # 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. > >=20 > > s/automate/automaton/ would be... more faithful to the original? :) > > (ESL, so I might be babbling) > =20 > Mebbe, but even then, I'd go for "finite state machine" as the more comm= on=20 > English idiom. This is tech writing, not high litterature that has to be= =20 > translated painstakingly for beauty and fidelity. :-) Without having read the manual page in question in detail I think the original is probably almost OK, except that it should be "automata". That is a rather common term used in computer science. --=20 Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team --5vNYLRcllDrimb99 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAoTcgh9pcDSc1mlERAl1OAJ0cs/Drm/wc5xPeaqB3JoptY9d2dgCeP4tJ DFMcj0JEoU1RbulsaseBSGg= =Pa/6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5vNYLRcllDrimb99--
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