Re: Request for review: upcoming announcement about new brasilian security mirror
Hi,
On Tue Mar 01, 2011 at 14:28:35 +0000, Justin B Rye wrote:
> Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
> > On Tue Mar 01, 2011 at 12:17:35 +0000, Justin B Rye wrote:
> >> It's tricky, because a lot of it is inside quotation marks.
> >>
> >> For instance, it quotes Martin Zobel-Helas as saying "We are happy
> >> we soon can cover all continents". This is slightly awkward
> >> English, but it also raises a more subtle issue: different cultures
> >> have different traditional tallies for the number of continents.
> >
> > Feel free to reword my sentence in a way that meets our needs.
>
> And still leave it inside quotation marks? The best I can do is:
>
> <q>In combination with the GeoDNS feature used by Debian, this
> should speed up downloads for our users in that geographical area
> - drastically. We are happy we soon can cover all continents with
> + drastically. This is a welcome improvement in the worldwide coverage of
> dedicated official <code>security.debian.org</code> mirrors, administrated by the
> Debian project</q> says Martin Zobel-Helas, member of the Debian System
> Administration team.</p>
>
> (Also committed in SVN; posting partly to be sure you get a chance to
> reject it and partly in the hope that somebody can improve on it.)
it sounds good. thanks for that improvement.
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