Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

David Kastrup wrote:
> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>>> Hi, Kenichi,
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 09:16:25PM +0900, Kenichi Handa wrote:
>>>
>>>> Anyway, for me (a non native English speeker), the more helpful thing
>>>> is to standardise which word to use (e.g. remove/delete,
>>>> replace/substitute, accept/permit/allow, preserve/retain,
>>>> put/set/store, property/attribute, vector/array, go-to/move-to,
>>>> cancel/undo, etc.) :-p
>>> NO!!  Different words have different meanings.  For example, if you
>>> delete something, it's gone.  If you remove something, you can later put
>>> it back again.
>>>
>>> You might substitute a fresh football player for a tired one, but you'd
>>> replace a broken light bulb (answer, it only takes one Emacs hacker to
>>> change a light bulb).
>>>
>>> And so on.
>>>
>>> There a few pairs of words indeed in English in which one means exactly
>>> the same as the other.  It is surely the same in other languages.  Let us
>>> strive, always, to use the most fitting word, and to preserve and retain
>>> the fine control this gives us over our meanings.
>> That is nice. For some non native English speakers it would be good to
>> have a document describing those small differences.
> 
> Uh no, it is not nice.  The poetry of Emacs is at a different level than
> the poetry of drama.  The language of documentation should be blunt and
> to the point.  We don't want to hide differences in the subtlety of
> words.

Maybe you are right, but I think different words can both hide and point 
to the differences. For me personally it would help. I do not think that 
logically, it takes too much time except at that point when you have to 
be exact.