cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq book.sgml

Michael Lucas mwlucas at FreeBSD.org
Wed May 11 12:53:27 PDT 2005


mwlucas     2005-05-11 19:53:27 UTC

  FreeBSD doc repository

  Modified files:
    en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq book.sgml 
  Log:
  The FAQ is guilty of egregious and annoying use of the word "simply,"
  i.e.:
  
  "Simply use this command" is vaguely patronizing, especially when the
  command is a Perl regex with a few obscure (to new users) command-line
  options attached.  "Use this command" answers the question, and
  doesn't imply that you should know this already.
  
  In most cases, when you begin a sentence with the word "simply" you
  shouldn't.  Simply begin your sentence with the second word instead.
  
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