Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Jan 1999 08:40:46 -0600 | From | Charles Cazabon <> | Subject | Re: PR draft final-6 comments |
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Nathan Myers <ncm@cantrip.org> wrote: >Kyle Rose wrote: > > SANTA CLARA, C.A. -- Today Linus Torvalds, the primary developer and > > coordinator of the Linux kernel team, releases a major new version of the > ^^^^^^^^ > I disagree with Albert on this one: it should be "released". We're > not announcing a projected event, but an achieved one. Announcements > of expected future events are routinely round-filed.
Press releases for products almost universally use the past tense to announce availability -- Nathan is correct, it should be "released".
The reason behind this is, the whole point of a press release is to tell the world that something has happened; it is irrelevent whether it has occurred ------------> ^^ at the time of writing, but must certainly have occurred by the time of 'printing'. That's the whole point of a release.
Charles -- ---------------------------------------------------- Charles Cazabon <charlesc-linux@qcc.sk.ca> Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions. ----------------------------------------------------
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