request for review of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS release announcement

Matthew East mdke at ubuntu.com
Fri Apr 30 07:30:59 UTC 2010


(Pruning list of addressees as the announcement has now gone out)

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 3:15 AM, David Quist <davidquist at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Actually no.  The sentence as written is gramaticaly correct.
>
> Mewshi Mewshi wrote:
>> "Ubuntu is a full-featured Linux distribution for desktops, laptops, netbooks
>> and servers" should have a comma after "netbooks".

David - for the ubuntu-docs project, Mewshi is quite right, we use the
"series comma". See this page for reference:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/StyleGuide/SpellingPunctuationGrammar#Punctuation

Whether the authors of the release announcement adopt the same style
or not, I don't know.

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Matthew East
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