GNU Privacy Handbook typo

Jacob Bachmeyer jcb62281 at gmail.com
Sat Jun 8 01:03:22 CEST 2024


Patrick F. Marques via Gnupg-users wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was reading the gnupg documentation and although I’m not an English 
> native, I believe there is a “tiny” typo in this page 
> https://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual/x334.html
>
> In the first paragraph:
>
>     (…) By personally checking the fingerprint you can be sure that
>     the key really does belong to him, and since you have signed they
>     key, (..)
>
> I believe it should be “their key” instead of “they key”

Strictly, "their" is plural in English and the antecedent here would be 
singular, since the text has already referred to the key's owner as 
"him".  A better way to fix the typo would be to change "they key" to 
"the key" instead.


-- Jacob



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