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bug#28790: Replaced "which see" with "q.v.".
From: |
Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
bug#28790: Replaced "which see" with "q.v.". |
Date: |
Thu, 12 Oct 2017 20:26:35 -0400 |
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"This is about foobar, which see" is a customary usage in English.
Perhaps not used so much nowadays as 50 years ago. People who don't
know it will have a good chance of figuring it out from the meanings
of the two words."
As for "q.v.", that is an erudite abbreviation that most people won't know,
and won't have any way to figure out.
Thus, this change would make the text harder to understand. Please
don't make this change.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org)
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- bug#28790: [PATCH] Replaced "which see" with "q.v."., (continued)
- bug#28790: [PATCH] Replaced "which see" with "q.v."., Eli Zaretskii, 2017/10/12
- bug#28790: [PATCH] Replaced "which see" with "q.v."., Glenn Morris, 2017/10/14
- bug#28790: [PATCH] Replaced "which see" with "q.v."., João Távora, 2017/10/14
- bug#28790: [PATCH] Replaced "which see" with "q.v."., John Williams, 2017/10/14
- bug#28790: [PATCH] Replaced "which see" with "q.v."., Drew Adams, 2017/10/15
- bug#28790: [PATCH] Replaced "which see" with "q.v."., Richard Stallman, 2017/10/15
- bug#28790: [PATCH] Replaced "which see" with "q.v."., Alan Third, 2017/10/16
- bug#28790: [PATCH] Replaced "which see" with "q.v."., Eli Zaretskii, 2017/10/14
bug#28790: Replaced "which see" with "q.v.".,
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