> On 18 May, 2017, at 10:53, Ian Lepore <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2017-05-18 at 10:43 -0600, Adam Weinberger wrote: >>> >>> On 18 May, 2017, at 10:24, Glen Barber <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Author: gjb >>> Date: Thu May 18 16:24:11 2017 >>> New Revision: 318468 >>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/318468 >>> >>> Log: >>> Fix grammar nits. >>> >>> Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation >>> >>> Modified: >>> stable/11/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.xml >>> stable/11/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/readme/article.xml >>> >>> Modified: stable/11/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859- >>> 1/hardware/article.xml >>> =================================================================== >>> =========== >>> --- stable/11/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.xml >>> Thu May 18 16:24:10 2017 (r318467) >>> +++ stable/11/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.xml >>> Thu May 18 16:24:11 2017 (r318468) >>> @@ -555,7 +555,7 @@ >>> </itemizedlist> >>> >>> <para>The following Sun &ultrasparc; systems are not tested >>> but >>> - believed to be also supported by &os;:</para> >>> + believed to also be supported by &os;:</para> >> As long as we're picking grammar nits, you've split an infinitive >> there. I think you want "believed also to be supported" or "believed >> to be supported by &os; as well:". >> >>> >>> >>> <itemizedlist> >>> <listitem> >>> @@ -581,7 +581,7 @@ >>> </itemizedlist> >>> >>> <para>The following Fujitsu &primepower; systems are not >>> tested >>> - but believed to be also supported by &os;:</para> >>> + but believed to also be supported by &os;:</para> >> Same here. >> >> # Adam > > There is no rule of grammar forbidding split infinitives, and the style > opinion which disfavored them for many years is itself no longer in > favor. Like the old "don't end a sentence with a preposition" this is > just a thing many of us learned in school that turned out to be > widespread prejudice, not an actual rule of grammar.
I did not know that! If Mr. Gould's 6th grade English class was a lie, I just don't know who to trust in this world anymore. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger [email protected] https://www.adamw.org _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
