From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries? Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:25:22 +0200 Message-ID: <85skuva3zx.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1214803555 582 80.91.229.12 (30 Jun 2008 05:25:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:25:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Juanma Barranquero" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 30 07:26:40 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KDBuR-0006Zb-Ol for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:26:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48642 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KDBtb-0000Ju-Fw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:25:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KDBtU-0000Jo-3l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:25:40 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KDBtS-0000Jc-4N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:25:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53371 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KDBtR-0000JZ-QQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:25:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-05.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.45]:58469) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KDBtG-0005gk-1k; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:25:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-11-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-11-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.28]) by mail-in-05.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 033A61834E2; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:25:24 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-05.arcor-online.net (mail-in-05.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.45]) by mail-in-11-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4B583465A9; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:25:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-001-092.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.1.92]) by mail-in-05.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BA921C3318; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:25:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id DCE611CCCE2F; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:25:22 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:26:55 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.93/7407/Mon Jun 9 04:21:00 2008 on mail-in-05.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:100191 Archived-At: "Juanma Barranquero" writes: > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 00:05, Richard M Stallman wrote: > >> Are you accusing me of being inconsistent, then ;-)? > > Well, now that you mention it... > >> But here there is no sacrifice. If Glenn wants to spend his time >> this way, why argue? > > Fair enough. My comments are only because I think some of the authors > of the entries would want their linguistic flavour preserved. Well, those authors are presumably reading the Emacs developer list when they are bothered about what happens "downstream" with their contribution. So they can speak up for themselves. There is no need to invent hypothetical people to complicate things. > It is akin to making a pass and removing the lighthearted or ironic > comments (and there are quite a few of them). No, it isn't. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum