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Reword sentences that contain psuedo-English "resp."
authorAndrew Eikum <aeikum@codeweavers.com>
Mon, 15 Oct 2012 18:59:12 +0000 (13:59 -0500)
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Mon, 15 Oct 2012 23:03:01 +0000 (01:03 +0200)
commit16dad32e437fdf2ffca03cc60a083d84bd31886f
tree470098d66b70b7f29b3fd5cbb105a93bcea73a98
parentedfb521a21c44f7b4c91d4ef6bffd84f2c241363
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>
23 files changed:
man/daemon.xml
man/journalctl.xml
man/os-release.xml
man/sd-daemon.xml
man/sd-readahead.xml
man/sd_booted.xml
man/sd_is_fifo.xml
man/sd_journal_next.xml
man/sd_listen_fds.xml
man/sd_notify.xml
man/sd_readahead.xml
man/systemd-ask-password-console.service.xml
man/systemd-cat.xml
man/systemd-cgtop.xml
man/systemd-inhibit.xml
man/systemd.exec.xml
man/systemd.journal-fields.xml
man/systemd.kill.xml
man/systemd.service.xml
man/systemd.socket.xml
man/systemd.swap.xml
man/systemd.unit.xml
man/systemd.xml