On 7/30/20 5:16 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > I know what you mean. One reason for that verbosity is the need to > clearly distinguish "pseudoterminal device/end" from "pseudoterminal > device pair". It's hard to avoid being wordy there. The perfect is the enemy of the good. My feeling is that as others write this text in emails or discussions, we'll eventually all settle on some other short form we find agreeable and then later we can adjust the man pages to use that. Until then taking the lead to change this language is the correct way forward. -- Cheers, Carlos.