On Tue, 2018-07-17 at 15:09 -0600, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote:
On Mon, 2018-07-16 at 17:32 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
>
> Basic:
>
> "The installed system must be able appropriately to install, remove,
> and update software with the default console tool for the relevant
> software type (e.g. default console package manager). This includes
> downloading of packages to be installed/updated."
>
Just a small typo/grammar correction I think.
"The installed system must be able to appropriately install, remove,
and update.."
just moved the 'to' infront of appropriately.. Apologies if that's a
dumb thing to nit-pick. Otherwise looks good to me.
This is the old English grammatical chestnut known as the "split
infinitive" (or rather, in the case of my draft, the infinitive is
intentionally *not* split).
Both forms are used, and mean the same. The one I chose is sometimes
considered the more 'classically' correct, and some stick-in-the-muds
consider your form to be incorrect. Wikipedia has quite a good article
on it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_infinitive
I instinctively like the non-split form here because, to me, it
emphasizes more clearly that "appropriately" applies to all three
actions.
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