Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 01:30:47 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Chris Costello <chris@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man5 sysctl.conf.5 Message-ID: <200001160830.BAA52797@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 16 Jan 2000 13:34:34 %2B0530." <20000116133434.K3413@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> References: <20000116133434.K3413@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> <200001160515.VAA88306@freefall.freebsd.org>
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In message <20000116133434.K3413@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Greg Lehey writes: : Do you have any evidence? I suspect this is an impression that native : English speakers have about the language. In fact, I believe most : non-native speakers spend some time learning some contractions and may : be confused in some cases if they're omitted (though probably not in : this case). For what it is worth, my High School Freshman English teacher taught us that contractions didn't belong in formal writing. It took me years to recover and use them in email :-) Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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