svn commit: r314585 - head/usr.sbin/syslogd

[Ian Lepore]

On Fri, 2017-03-03 at 17:10 -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
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> > 
> > > 
> > > On Mar 3, 2017, at 15:14, Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya) <yaneurabeya@
> > > gmail.com> wrote:
> > ?
> > 
> > > 
> > > Actually, accepts is better. Although it isn?t clear by itself,
> > > the sentence fragment is describing the -a option, which is
> > > singular, not plural. Here?s the sentence in full context:
> > > 
> > >                                             source packet must
> > > belong to.  A
> > >                                             service of `*'
> > > accepts UDP
> > >                                             packets from any
> > > source port.
> > Correction: it?s describing `service`, which is still singular.
> > -Ngie
> Tongue in cheek:  Now my head hurts!!!   I let this stir around in my
> grey
> space for a minute and went wait, adding (s) to accept does not make
> it
> plurar.  This is one of those really screwed up situations that is
> just
> a mess.  So I had to google.  AmE would like us to use just accept in
> this specific case.  BrE would rather see accepts.  It has to do with
> some thing they call present subjunctive.  If you want to make your
> head hurt too google up "accept or accepts"
> 

The verb (accepts) in this case does not occur in a subjunctive clause,
the sentence is a simple indicative statement, so any rules about how
to conjugate the verb for a subjunctive don't apply here. 

-- Ian