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.