Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 25 Aug 2002 05:10:17 -0600 (MDT) | From | Thunder from the hill <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.20-pre4-ac1 |
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Hi,
On Sun, 25 Aug 2002, Tomas Szepe wrote: > > "Warning: Limiting speed since you did not use an 80-conductor cable" > > Pronouns should generally be avoided in formulations such as this one, > simply because there's no way to tell who it really was who didn't use > an 80-conductor cable. Go with a passive sentence instead.
"Warning: The speed was limited because the 80-conductor cable wasn't used (and got annoyed for that reason)."? "Warning: 80-conductor cable wasn't, so it must have been the speed which got used to reducing itself."
Just a matter of taste...
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