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| author | Andrew Eikum <aeikum@codeweavers.com> | 2012-10-15 13:59:12 -0500 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2012-10-16 01:03:01 +0200 |
| commit | 16dad32e437fdf2ffca03cc60a083d84bd31886f (patch) | |
| tree | 470098d66b70b7f29b3fd5cbb105a93bcea73a98 /man/systemd.swap.xml | |
| parent | edfb521a21c44f7b4c91d4ef6bffd84f2c241363 (diff) | |
Reword sentences that contain psuedo-English "resp."
As you likely know, Arch Linux is in the process of moving to systemd.
So I was reading through the various systemd docs and quickly became
baffled by this new abbreviation "resp.", which I've never seen before
in my English-mother-tongue life.
Some quick Googling turned up a reference:
<http://www.transblawg.eu/index.php?/archives/870-Resp.-and-other-non-existent-English-wordsNicht-existente-englische-Woerter.html>
I guess it's a literal translation of the German "Beziehungsweise", but
English doesn't work the same way. The word "respectively" is used
exclusively to provide an ordering connection between two lists. E.g.
"the prefixes k, M, and G refer to kilo-, mega-, and giga-,
respectively." It is also never abbreviated to "resp." So the sentence
"Sets the default output resp. error output for all services and
sockets" makes no sense to a natural English speaker.
This patch removes all instances of "resp." in the man pages and
replaces them with sentences which are much more clear and, hopefully,
grammatically valid. In almost all instances, it was simply replacing
"resp." with "or," which the original author (Lennart?) could probably
just do in the future.
The only other instances of "resp." are in the src/ subtree, which I
don't feel privileged to correct.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Eikum <aeikum@codeweavers.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man/systemd.swap.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/systemd.swap.xml | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd.swap.xml b/man/systemd.swap.xml index 5eb008dfcf..a932143d43 100644 --- a/man/systemd.swap.xml +++ b/man/systemd.swap.xml @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ terminated.</para> <para>Swap units must be named after the devices - (resp. files) they control. Example: the swap device + or files they control. Example: the swap device <filename>/dev/sda5</filename> must be configured in a unit file <filename>dev-sda5.swap</filename>. For details about the escaping logic used to convert a @@ -86,8 +86,8 @@ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para> <para>All swap units automatically get the appropriate - dependencies on the devices (resp. on the mount points - of the files) they are activated from.</para> + dependencies on the devices or on the mount points + of the files they are activated from.</para> <para>Swap units with <varname>DefaultDependencies=</varname> enabled |