Grammar Error

[Chuck Swiger]

On Dec 11, 2006, at 4:56 PM, Miles Raymond wrote:
> On http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/book- 
> preface.html
>
> in the first paragraph:
>
> "...and the ability to take on board new concepts as they are  
> introduced."
>
> should probably say "broad" instead of "board".

It's at least possible they meant "...take onboard..."; I'm not sure  
the notion of "taking on broad concepts" matches the reassuring tone  
of the intro.  :-)  The sentence also has a comma splice, something  
like the following might be more clear:

"Working through this section requires little more than the desire to  
explore and the ability to learn new concepts as they are introduced."

-- 
-Chuck