From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>, 23746@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23746: 25.0.95; Doc fixes (grammar, typos, clarification)
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2016 16:21:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM-tV--zcUa2zF1-eEiA9PuoFTAn_rRMdwhkSeTPPZvmBicJ6A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83bn37h6o0.fsf@gnu.org>
On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 3:22 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > This goes against the rest of the changes, which correctly made the
>> > opposite replacement. I see no reason to make the opposite change
>> > here.
>>
>> I don't understand what you mean; the changes in that hunk are strictly
>> grammatical corrections (underlined).
>
> Yes. They are just backwards: "may wish telling" => "may wish to tell".
>
As a native English speaker, "your Lisp program may wish telling the
process" sounds obviously incorrect (though I'm not sure how to
explain why in terms of grammatical rules). Whereas, "your Lisp
program may wish to tell the process" is correct.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-11 20:21 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 [this message]
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
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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