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RFC Errata System | 28 Dec 2009 14:09

[Editorial Errata Reported] RFC5537 (1982)


The following errata report has been submitted for RFC5537,
"Netnews Architecture and Protocols".

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Type: Editorial
Reported by: Alfred Hoenes <ah <at> TR-Sys.de>

Section: 3.4.2, NOTE

Original Text
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       ... unintended repeat injection into the same network, ...
                           ^

Corrected Text
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       ... unintended repeated injection into the same network, ...
                           ^^^

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Russ Allbery | 28 Dec 2009 20:41

Re: [Editorial Errata Reported] RFC5537 (1982)

RFC Errata System <rfc-editor <at> rfc-editor.org> writes:

> Type: Editorial
> Reported by: Alfred Hoenes <ah <at> TR-Sys.de>

> Section: 3.4.2, NOTE

> Original Text
> -------------
>        ... unintended repeat injection into the same network, ...
>                            ^

> Corrected Text
> --------------
>        ... unintended repeated injection into the same network, ...
>                            ^^^

I have no real objections to making this change, but I believe either form
is correct English.  The first reads slightly better to me personally.

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Russ Allbery (rra <at> stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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Julien ÉLIE | 28 Dec 2009 20:31

Re: [Editorial Errata Reported] RFC5537 (1982)


Hi Alfred,

> Section: 3.4.2, NOTE
>
> Original Text
> -------------
>       ... unintended repeat injection into the same network, ...
>                           ^
>
> Corrected Text
> --------------
>       ... unintended repeated injection into the same network, ...
>                           ^^^

I do not understand why "repeat" is wrong.
It is what grammars call an "attribute use of nouns" (or in French,
a « nom adjectivé »).

Examples of real uses:  repeat prescription, repeat performance,
repeat order...

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Julien ÉLIE

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