Linux Basics Headings

Brian Murray brian at murraytwins.com
Thu Dec 21 02:54:44 UTC 2006


On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 08:31:59 +0000
Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:

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> * Matthew Paul Thomas:
> > On Dec 20, 2006, at 2:08 PM, Brian Murray wrote:
> >> I propose that "Switch" be changed to "Switching" and "Disable"
> >> changed to "Disabling".  My logic is that these are things that
> >> will be done repeatedly and should be phrased that way.  As this
> >> will effect quite a few pages I thought it was worthy of
> >> discussion. ...
> > 
> > Good idea -- not necessarily because something will be done
> > repeatedly, but because the imperative tense looks unnecessarily
> > like an order, and because "Xing the Y" is more concise than "How
> > to X the Y".
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> I agree too. Brian - we'll certainly apply any patches you send in in
> relation to this change.
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Per our discussion I have attached two separate patches, one for the
Ubuntu documentation and one for the Kubuntu documentation, changing
"Switch" to "Switching" and "Disable" to "Disabling".  Please let me
know if I missed any pages.

Thanks,

Brian
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