svn commit: r318468 - in stable/11/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1: hardware readme

[Adam Weinberger]

> On 18 May, 2017, at 10:53, Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2017-05-18 at 10:43 -0600, Adam Weinberger wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 18 May, 2017, at 10:24, Glen Barber <gjb at FreeBSD.org> 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


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