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Re: Typos in web sites



On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 04:45:05PM -0500, Alexander Winston wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 20:03 -0800, Matt Kraai wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 03:20:14PM +0100, Jens Seidel wrote:
> > > Index: vote/2000/leadership_debate/transcript.wml
> > > ===================================================================
> > > RCS file: /cvs/webwml/webwml/english/vote/2000/leadership_debate/transcript.wml,v
> > > retrieving revision 1.5
> > > diff -u -u -r1.5 transcript.wml
> > > --- vote/2000/leadership_debate/transcript.wml	18 Jan 2003 13:21:53 -0000	1.5
> > > +++ vote/2000/leadership_debate/transcript.wml	9 Mar 2004 14:13:09 -0000
> > > @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@
> > >  Generally, better communication should prevent this sort of thing though - and I think that's very important.
> > >  
> > >  <p><b>Ben:</b> 
> > > -     I think I differ in my assesment of the "new maintainer fallout" in that I think it deals more generally with some core issues in our structure...
> > > +     I think I differ in my assessment of the "new maintainer fallout" in that I think it deals more generally with some core issues in our structure...
> > >  <br><b>Ben:</b> 
> > >       after talking to a couple of people involved with new maintainer I was shown that they were basically asking for help quite a while before they decided to close
> > >       asking for help indirectly, but still, they asked
> > 
> > I don't want to change quotes, so I didn't fix this.
> 
> Matt, you can probably replace "assesment" with "[assessment]" safely.

I looked up quotations in the Chicago Manual of Style, and it said
that obvious typographical errors should be silently corrected.

I've corrected the spelling of "assessment" and I drop my
opposition to further such changes.

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Matt Kraai            kraai@ftbfs.org            http://ftbfs.org/



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