...making Linux just a little more fun!
Anderson Silva [afsilva at gmail.com]
The line:
Where 90 and 270 is how many degrees the turtle should turn given the right or left command.
Should probably read:
Where 90 and 270 are how many degrees the turtle should turn given the right or left command.
Apologies for not catching that earlier.
-- http://www.the-silvas.com
Anderson Silva [afsilva at gmail.com]
boy i am embarrassed, I guess the link to my first article is also incorrect:
It should be: http://linuxgazette.net/issue43/silva.logo.html
under:
Exactly ten years ago, I was writing my very *first article* for the Linux Gazette.
I apologize yet again,
AS
Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]
On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 01:19:02AM -0400, Anderson Silva wrote:
> boy i am embarrassed, I guess the link to my first article is also incorrect: > > It should be: http://linuxgazette.net/issue43/silva.logo.html
[smile] We take good care of our authors. That was fixed already.
-- * Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET *
Anderson Silva [afsilva at gmail.com]
The link still broken though: http://linuxgazette.net/166/silva.html is it a batch process that will update it later?
Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]
On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 10:41:10AM -0400, Anderson Silva wrote:
> The link still broken though: http://linuxgazette.net/166/silva.html > is it a batch process that will update it later?
Whoops - I updated the link structure but mistyped the filename itself.
Who expects more than one error in a single link, anyway? 
It's fixed
now.
-- * Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET *
Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]
On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 01:15:24AM -0400, Anderson Silva wrote:
> The line: > > Where 90 and 270 is how many degrees the turtle should turn given the > right or left command. > > Should probably read: > > Where 90 and 270 are how many degrees the turtle should turn given the > right or left command.
Actually, this is one of those places where English are very confusing.
"is", in the above case, implies "is the angle", whereas "are" is
problematic - if you had said "are the angles", that would have worked
fine, but "is how many degrees" would be a poor fit for that plural.
In any case, the above phrase passed muster with four proofreaders
including yours truly, so if anyone complains, just send them to us:
we've got a special dark cellar for That Kind of People.
-- * Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET *
Rick Moen [rick at linuxmafia.com]
Quoting Ben Okopnik (ben@linuxgazette.net):
> Actually, this is one of those places where English are very confusing. >
Our other proofreaders were so diligent on Anderson's article that it's the one piece in issue 166 I never was able to check out for editing. It was always being worked on. Bravo, team!
Anyway, I concur exactly with Ben's assessment: The sentence is fine either way, with the choice dependent on what you think the implied reference is.