Spelling error?

Diane Bruce db at db.net
Mon Jan 25 15:52:23 UTC 2016


On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 10:38:56AM -0500, Allan Jude wrote:
> On 2016-01-25 08:36, Sergey Kandaurov wrote:
> > On 26 January 2016 at 02:10, Johnny Eriksson <bygg at cafax.se> wrote:
> >> I just noticed a possible small spelling error in the web page
> >>
> >>   http://www.freebsd.org/features.html
> >>
> >> At the end, in the section about firewalls, there is the text:
> >>
> >>   "allowing network administrators to simular adverse network"
> >>
> >> I assume that the word simular should read simulate here.
> >>
> > 
> > That's an archaic form after Latin "simulare".
> > FWIW, it is in use, e.g., in Spanish.
> > 


http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=simular

> 
> Yes, it is a typo. The word is meant to be "simulate"

I doubt we want 1610 era English.

> 
> I have corrected the page on the website. It should be live within an hour.
> 
> -- 
> Allan Jude
> 

Diane
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