request for review of Ubuntu 9.10 release candidate announcement
Kyle Nitzsche
kyle.nitzsche at canonical.com
Wed Oct 21 15:28:36 UTC 2009
And there's a subject-verb number mismatch in the same sentence. The
subject is "family", not "variants, so the verb should be "reaches", not
"reach," as in
"The Ubuntu 9.10 family of variants (Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, Ubuntu
Studio, and Mythbuntu) also reaches RC status today."
Cheers,
Kyle
Kyle Nitzsche wrote:
> Minor usage point on the following:
>
> "The Ubuntu 9.10 family of variants, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, Ubuntu
> Studio, and Mythbuntu, also reach RC status today."
>
> A list is not usually preceded by a comma. Consider a colon or
> parentheses, as in:
> "The Ubuntu 9.10 family of variants also reach RC status today: Kubuntu,
> Xubuntu, Edubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, and Mythbuntu."
>
> Or:
> "The Ubuntu 9.10 family of variants (Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, Ubuntu
> Studio, and Mythbuntu) also reach RC status today."
>
> Cheers
> Kyle
>
>
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> Steve Langasek wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Here is the draft for the Ubuntu 9.10 release candidate announcement:
>>
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KarmicKoala/RCAnnouncement
>>
>> Please review and advise me of any corrections that should be made.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
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