From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Williams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#28790: Replaced "which see" with "q.v.". 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On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 5:26 PM, Richard Stallman 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. >