misc/67586: [patch] Typo in fortune/datfiles/fortunes2
Paul A. Hoadley
paulh at logicsquad.net
Fri Jun 4 19:01:42 PDT 2004
I found a few more typos. I have attached a better patch. I notice
that misc/45839 is still open, and that at least one of my typos is in
that PR's patch as well. I'll stop looking for now.
--
Paul.
mailto:paulh at logicsquad.net
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--- fortunes2.orig Sat Jun 5 10:47:49 2004
+++ fortunes2 Sat Jun 5 11:25:48 2004
@@ -463,7 +463,7 @@
you should blame when you make a mistake.
Yes, I want the brochure describing this incredible offer.
- I enclose $1000 is small unmarked bills to cover the cost of
+ I enclose $1000 in small unmarked bills to cover the cost of
postage and handling. (No live poultry, please.)
*** Our Slogan: Top down programming for the masses. ***
@@ -1113,7 +1113,7 @@
-- Jack Banton, PCC Automotive Electrical School
%
A shy teenage boy finally worked up the nerve to give a gift to
-Maddona, a young puppy. It hitched its waggin' to a star.
+Madonna, a young puppy. It hitched its waggin' to a star.
A girl spent a couple hours on the phone talking to her two best
friends, Maureen Jones, and Maureen Brown. When asked by her father why she
had been on the phone so long, she responded "I heard a funny story today
@@ -17026,7 +17026,7 @@
you also want to use \skip12 for horizontal glue, whether in math mode or
not, the amount of skipping will be in points (e.g., 6pt). The rule is
that glue in math mode varies with the size only when it is an \mskip;
-when moving between an mskipand ordinary skip, the conversion factor
+when moving between an mskip and ordinary skip, the conversion factor
1mu=1pt is always used. The meaning of '\mskip\skip12' and
'\baselineskip=\the\thickmskip' should be clear.
-- Donald Knuth, TeX 82 -- Comparison with TeX80
@@ -42295,7 +42295,7 @@
who has no talent and is modest about it.
-- James Agate, British film and drama critic
%
-The entire work force of the Communist countries is sunjected to periodic
+The entire work force of the Communist countries is subjected to periodic
purges (called verifications in Newspeak). One of the most severe took
place in 1957 when Novotny, rattled by the Hungarian Revolution the year
before, tried hard to weed out "radishes" (red outside, white inside) from
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