/www/en/index.xsl

Christian Brueffer chris at unixpages.org
Thu Mar 31 23:09:28 UTC 2005


On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 09:04:18AM +0300, Simonas Kareiva wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> line 179 of /www/en/index.xsl says that 'All you need is a couple of
> formatted 1.44MB floppies'. AFAIK in 5.3-RELEASE there are three
> instal floppies, (boot.flp, kern1.flp and kern2.flp), so not a couple
> anymore. In the future there may be even more of them. Maybe it's
> worth changing this to 'a few floppies' or 'several floppies'?
> 

In this context 'a couple' doesn't mean two floppies, but several.

From the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:

[...]
4 : an indefinite small number : FEW <a couple of days ago>

- Christian

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