From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: stephen.berman@gmx.net, 23746@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23746: 25.0.95; Doc fixes (grammar, typos, clarification)
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 07:04:58 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mvmpg2dx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM-tV-_2B0LzMLrFDBi5CWbKcG_yYEdtVUksH1wEWuW5XpMMTA@mail.gmail.com> (message from Noam Postavsky on Sun, 12 Jun 2016 17:09:45 -0400)
> From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 17:09:45 -0400
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>, 23746@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> I'm sorry, but you're simply wrong on this. The original wording is
> grammatically incorrect, please defer to people with more knowledge of
> English, as I'm sure anyone would defer to you on a question regarding
> Emacs' display engine.
Actually, no one defers to me on the display engine, I'm normally
required to prove my opinions with hard evidence.
Anyway, which part(s) are grammatically incorrect, and why? The
changes in question modified at least 3 different parts, all of them
seem to be stylistic changes. I wonder why stylistic matters should
cause this amount of bike-shedding.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-13 4:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-11 15:54 bug#23746: 25.0.95; Doc fixes (grammar, typos, clarification) Stephen Berman
2016-06-11 16:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-11 16:32 ` Stephen Berman
2016-06-11 19:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-11 20:21 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-06-12 17:58 ` Stephen Berman
2016-06-12 18:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-12 19:40 ` Ken Brown
2016-06-12 21:09 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-06-13 4:04 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-06-13 9:20 ` Stephen Berman
2016-06-13 9:25 ` Stephen Berman
2016-06-13 14:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-13 14:27 ` Stephen Berman
2016-06-13 15:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-13 16:12 ` Stephen Berman
2016-06-13 16:22 ` Stephen Berman
2016-06-14 2:43 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-06-14 14:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
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