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From: John Williams <jrw@pobox.com>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: 28790@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28790: Replaced "which see" with "q.v.".
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 11:34:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEdRJLA1N6p-f0c3etJS_kzsE20A3QkBE_V3mb2X8NpD7F9ZAQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1e2noB-0006mx-Dn@fencepost.gnu.org>

What about just deleting it in all the places where it adds nothing
because there's already a hyperlink?

On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 5:26 PM, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
> "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)
> Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.
>





  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-13 18:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-11 21:22 bug#28790: [PATCH] Replaced "which see" with "q.v." John Williams
2017-10-12  1:44 ` Nick Helm
2017-10-12  3:51   ` Drew Adams
2017-10-12  6:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-14 22:07   ` Glenn Morris
2017-10-14 22:52     ` John Williams
2017-10-15  2:36       ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-15  0:19     ` João Távora
2017-10-15  1:03       ` John Williams
2017-10-15 15:31         ` Drew Adams
2017-10-16  1:55           ` Richard Stallman
2017-10-16 21:47         ` Alan Third
2017-10-15  2:36     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-13  0:26 ` bug#28790: " Richard Stallman
2017-10-13 18:34   ` John Williams [this message]
2017-10-13 18:55     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-24 15:39   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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