Re: Use of plural

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

Martin Eberhard Schauer <Martin.E.Schauer@gmx.de> writes:

> "The <name> program in this package will change the hardware (MAC) "
> "address of all ethernet cards in your system (by default) to match
> the " "<vender-net> node address. "
>
> I wonder if it is correct. As German I would say that each card has an
> address and therefore "adresses of all ethernet cards" or "address of
> each ethernet card" would express the function in a better way.

I think the paragraph you quoted is not bad, though technically
incorrect. Your “address of each ethernet card” version is superior.

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