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Re: master 1d4862e: Fix English grammar in some doc strings and comments
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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Re: master 1d4862e: Fix English grammar in some doc strings and comments |
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Thu, 07 Nov 2019 20:55:56 +0100 |
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Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> You may be right about that. But many of the people who read our
> manual are not native speakers of English. The ambiguity may take
> some work for them to figure out.
You're right that it's better when things are better, but did you look
at the concrete changes in this case?
Typical example:
> -This variable only applies to buffers where `buffer-file-name' is
> +This variable applies only to buffers where `buffer-file-name' is
I doubt anybody, non native speaker or not, would find the former
ambiguous. The change is simply nonsensical pet peeving.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
- Re: master 1d4862e: Fix English grammar in some doc strings and comments, Juanma Barranquero, 2019/11/04
- Re: master 1d4862e: Fix English grammar in some doc strings and comments, Stephen Gildea, 2019/11/04
- Re: master 1d4862e: Fix English grammar in some doc strings and comments, Joost Kremers, 2019/11/04
- Re: master 1d4862e: Fix English grammar in some doc strings and comments, Juanma Barranquero, 2019/11/04
- Re: master 1d4862e: Fix English grammar in some doc strings and comments, Stephen Berman, 2019/11/04
- Re: master 1d4862e: Fix English grammar in some doc strings and comments, Juanma Barranquero, 2019/11/04
- Re: master 1d4862e: Fix English grammar in some doc strings and comments, Richard Stallman, 2019/11/05
- Re: master 1d4862e: Fix English grammar in some doc strings and comments, Juanma Barranquero, 2019/11/07
- Re: master 1d4862e: Fix English grammar in some doc strings and comments, Richard Stallman, 2019/11/07
- Re: master 1d4862e: Fix English grammar in some doc strings and comments,
Lars Ingebrigtsen <=
- Re: master 1d4862e: Fix English grammar in some doc strings and comments, Paul Eggert, 2019/11/07
- Re: master 1d4862e: Fix English grammar in some doc strings and comments, Juanma Barranquero, 2019/11/07
- Re: master 1d4862e: Fix English grammar in some doc strings and comments, Paul Eggert, 2019/11/08
- Re: master 1d4862e: Fix English grammar in some doc strings and comments, Juanma Barranquero, 2019/11/08
- Re: master 1d4862e: Fix English grammar in some doc strings and comments, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/11/07
- Re: master 1d4862e: Fix English grammar in some doc strings and comments, Richard Stallman, 2019/11/08