Bug#514009: Release notes: section about Braille displays in installing.dbk/installing.po
On Sun, 08 Feb 2009, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> Justin B Rye <jbr@edlug.org.uk> writes:
> > W. Martin Borgert wrote:
> >> On 2009-02-07 18:41, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> >>> Christian Perrier, le Sat 07 Feb 2009 17:05:01 +0100, a écrit :
> >>>>> +<section id="install-with-speech">
> >>>>> + <title>Install &debian; with a hardware speech synthesis</title>
This should actually be either "with hardware speech synthesis" or
"with a hardware speech synthesizer". (If I remember my grammar
correctly,[1] the former is a noncount noun phrase, the latter is a
count noun phrase.)
> Just to make it clear: "an hour" but "a hardware", right?
Yes. The a/an rule follows pronunciation, not spelling. [Hour is our,
hard is hard, not 'ard. ;-)]
Don Armstrong
1: One of the disadvantages of being a native speaker is that you know
what's right and wrong, but you often forget why a certain way is
right or wrong.
--
Where I sleep at night, is this important compared to what I read
during the day? What do you think defines me? Where I slept or what I
did all day?
-- Thomas Van Orden of Van Orden v. Perry
http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
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