From owner-cvs-all Sun Jan 16 11: 0:11 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 360A314F70; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 11:00:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@d60-025.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.25]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA50325; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 11:00:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id LAA25141; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 11:00:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 11:00:07 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Greg Lehey Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man5 sysctl.conf.5 Message-ID: <20000116110007.B25093@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <200001160515.VAA88306@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000116133434.K3413@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000116133434.K3413@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 01:34:34PM +0530 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 01:34:34PM +0530, Greg Lehey wrote: > Do you have any evidence? I suspect this is an impression that native > English speakers have about the language. I do from immigrants to the USA. > In fact, I believe most non-native speakers spend some time learning > some contractions Only those that made a conscious effort to spend the time and effort to learn English while still living in a non-English speaking country. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message