Re: debian-faq: Patch2 to improve wording or meaning, remove superfluous words, consistentency ...

[Holger Wansing <linux@wansing-online.de>]

Hi,

Justin B Rye <justin.byam.rye@gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> appropriate, it would be called LDP!  So I'd suggest:
> 
>        <item>the Linux FAQ, by <url name="Ian Jackson" id="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ijackson/";>,

ok.

[...]
> >> (Do people think of etch-a-sketches as blackboards?  For a start,
> >> isn't it more of a whiteboard?)
> > 
> > I personally have no preference here (german speaker).
> > What would you suggest?
> 
> People trying to describe what an Etch-a-Sketch is usually seem to
> call it something like a "magic art pad".  Maybe it doesn't matter as
> long as we've got the actual brandname in there, but I would suggest:
> 
>       <item><em>etch</em> was the toy whiteboard (Etch-a-Sketch),

ok.

[...]
> >   <item><em>squeeze</em> was the name of the three-eyed alien
> >   <item><em>squeeze</em> was the name of the three-eyed aliens
> > 
> > I personally would use alien
> 
> We only ever meet them in groups, but they're instances of the same
> toy, so if any of them are named Squeeze they all are (just as both
> the spaceman toys in TS2 are Buzz Lightyear).  That's a weird enough
> situation to make it worth talking in terms of the (one) name of the
> (many) aliens:
> 
>     <item><em>squeeze</em> was the name of the three-eyed aliens,

ok.


Thanks
Holger


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