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  1. >From seismo!rochester!rocksanne!sunybcs!colonel Mon Dec 16 22:27:37 1985
  2. Date: Mon, 16 Dec 85 14:12:42 EST
  3. From: seismo!rochester!rocksanne!sunybcs!colonel (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
  4. Message-Id: <8512161912.AA18129@gort.SUNYAB>
  5. To: ut-sally!std-unix
  6. Subject: Re: P1003 Draft 6 -- Comments, criticisms etc.; V4N11
  7. In-Reply-To: your article <3784@ut-sally.UUCP>
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  9. > Date: Wed, 11 Dec 85 17:06:10 EST
  10. > From: Arnold Robbins <arnold%gatech.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA>
  11. > 
  12. > Sect 2.6 Environment Description:
  13. > 
  14. >     It is recommended the follwoing variable names....
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  16. > Should be "It is recommended that the..."
  17. >                              ^^^^
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  19. If you're going to hack the gobbledygook, you might as well get it out
  20. of the passive voice: "We recommend that the ..."
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  22. Volume-Number: Volume 4, Number 17
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