On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:

> 
> >> >Render what text there is into something closer to English.
> >> 	is it about s/ifmcstat/& utility/?
> >Yes.  It should either have been "Ifmcstat dumps..." or "The ifmcstat
> >utility dumps...", not "The Ifmcstat dumps".  I went for the longer
> >version, since it avoids putting the name (which should really be
> >all-lowercase) at the start of a sentence.  It's also the same phrasing as
> >in many other manual pages.
> 
> 	i believe there's some better way to express that than:
> >> >Render what text there is into something closer to English.
> 
> 	as a group of non-native English speakers, the above comment sounds
> 	a little bit discouraging.

I'm sorry.  It wasn't intended to be.  I'd certainly prefer to have useful
manual pages with dubious grammar than no manual pages at all.  I'll try
to make my commit messages more positive in future.

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
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