[27142] in Athena Bugs
Re: grammar bug in Athena account registration dialogue
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Tue Nov 13 15:25:48 2007
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From: Jacob Morzinski <morzinski@mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:25:22 -0500
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Hi,
I'm copying this reply to moira-admin@mit.edu, and temporarily
dropping belmonte.
A file in the account registration applet has an a/e typo:
moiradev/src/clients/regapplet/regapplet/mybundle.java
A one-letter change to line 14 of mybundle.java would fix it.
-Jacob
belmonte@mit.edu (Matthew Belmonte) writes:
> The screen that asks a new Athena account registrant for their six key words
> uses the phrase "if you are a freshmen" - this is an error since the plural
> noun "freshmen" is being used in a context where the singular is called for
> (as suggested by the preceding singular indefinite article "a"). To fix this
> bug - and thus to cease setting new students on the path to poor writing as
> soon as they arrive at MIT - please change "freshmen" to "freshman". Many
> thanks.
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Jacob Morzinski jmorzins@mit.edu
