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Re: master 1d4862e: Fix English grammar in some doc strings and comments


From: Juanma Barranquero
Subject: Re: master 1d4862e: Fix English grammar in some doc strings and comments
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2019 22:51:05 +0100


On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 10:31 PM Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:

> I'm not aware of any such cases. To my ear, the revised text in the example you
> gave is just as natural-sounding as the original.

I'm not a native English speaker, but some have chimed in already about the naturalness of some of these changes.

> I'm willing to put up with these less-important changes, if consistent use of
> the style helps to fix confusion elsewhere (as that patch did).

Yes, that's obviously your position in this discussion. I think the patch introduced some good changes, and others that didn't do anything to improve the docs and were just personal preferences. 

That's why I started this thread asking why (some of) these changes were "grammar fixes". They weren't. Not my opinion: the experts' opinion.


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