On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 09:07:27PM -0400, Sean Middleditch wrote: > On Wed, 2001-09-26 at 20:50, Ben Burton wrote: > > > > > British English is beautiful where it appears in poems, plays, and > > > novels by Shakespeare and Wilde and other brilliant English authors. > > > It certainly does NOT belong in the ls man page. > > > > Why such emphasis? The idea is to spell words like "colour" instead of > > "color", not to write the ls man page in iambic pentameter. > > > > I am reminded of an email I saw some years ago with error messages in > > Haiku. > > > > I think I'd RTFM a lot more if the man pages *were* in Iambic > Pentameter... ~,^
I wouldn't -- I'd get kinda confused :-) Duncan
