UPDATING readability

David Syphers dsyphers at u.washington.edu
Sat Oct 16 14:16:51 PDT 2004


On Saturday 16 October 2004 01:25 pm, Marc Ramirez wrote:
> On Saturday 16 October 2004 03:08 pm, David Syphers wrote:
> > On Saturday 16 October 2004 01:53 am, Matteo Riondato wrote:
> > > Could we change an entry from:
> > >
> > > 20041007:
> > >         One of the syscalls the 1:1 threading library libthr uses has
> > >         changed, thus breaking ABI compatibility. Make sure you 
> > > rebuild this library with the kernel.
> > >
> > > to:
>
> Compromise: One of the syscalls _which_ the ...

Okay... this would be grammatically correct. However, I'm curious why the 
original poster believes the current version to be unclear, since it is also 
grammatically correct. (Omitting "that" or "which" at the beginning of a 
restrictive relative clause is very common in English.)

-David


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