On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 19:07 -0800, Rob Farmer wrote: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:03 AM, Bruce Cran <bru...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > Author: brucec > > Date: Mon Feb 28 10:03:48 2011 > > New Revision: 219096 > > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/219096 > > > > Log: > > Revert some of r177626. "in in" is valid in certain sentences. > > I disagree. "in in" (or any doubled word) looks awkward in print and > should be avoided. Even if its grammatically correct, its a style > problem because the reader has to do a double take and starts to > wonder about the quality of the writing. With the exception of the > security manpage, where "break in originally" or similar would work, > these are all unnecessary verbosity and should be cut.
So you actually agree with me that it's valid grammatically :) I'll commit the changes you suggested. -- Bruce Cran _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
