[126121] trunk/base/doc/port-outdated.1.txt

Clemens Lang cal at macports.org
Sun Oct 5 02:32:49 PDT 2014


Hi,

----- On 5 Oct, 2014, at 11:02, Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org wrote:

> Here, "respectively" should be removed. "Respectively" is used to create a
> relationship between two sets of items, as in "'+' and '-' can be used to
> enable and disable a variant, respectively" but the above sentence only has one
> set of items so there is no relationship to be created. Since I know you're
> German I'm imagining you thinking of the German word "beziehungsweise" here,
> but that doesn't have anything to do with the English word "respectively",
> despite what certain German<->English dictionaries say.

Thanks, removed in r126201 and r126202.

-- 
Clemens Lang


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