Re: second attempt to fix this issue

[Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 06:27:25PM +0300, Eddy Petrișor wrote:

> I have complained a while back that this phrase is not that well formed :-)

> I will try again, since is still not fixed, although I raised the flag in
> October last year.

> Additions are marked like *this*. Removals are marked like (-this-)

> "It will guess the broadcast address is the bitwise OR of your system's
> IP address with the bitwise negation of the netmask."

> IMHO it would be better to be:

> "It will guess the broadcast address *which* is the bitwise OR of your system's
> IP address with the bitwise negation of the netmask."

> Or:

> "It will guess the broadcast address (-is-) *as* the bitwise OR of your system's
> IP address with the bitwise negation of the netmask."

These are both changes in meaning.

The meaning of the original sentence is

  It will guess *that* the broadcast address is the bitwise OR of your
  system's IP address with the bitwise negation of the netmask.

which in turn suggests to me an improvement,

  It will *assume* that the broadcast address is the bitwise OR...

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