Re: Proofreading From a Native English Speaker

[Josip Rodin <joy@srce.hr>]

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 11:42:04PM -0500, Alexander Winston wrote:
> I spotted this:
> no browser specific "extensions".
> 
> In this case, it should read thusly:
> no browser-specific "extensions."

We use the former for basically the same reasons as outlined in the
Jargon File chapter "Hacker Writing Style"[1], although without pretending
that writing web pages is hacking in the sense most often used by that
document :)

[1] http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/writing-style.html

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