From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>, yoni@rabkins.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Adding M-x iwconfig to net-utils.el
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:19:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85zlu9qicw.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1JO2kA-0000Io-P6@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat, 09 Feb 2008 22:20:38 -0500")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> PS. It's funny how people often switch to the past tense when writing
> certain ChangeLog entries (eg: "rename", "move").
>
> I have always used "deleted" and "renamed", past tense.
One can argue about the "past tense" of "deleted xxx.c", since it can be
short hand for "xxx.c is deleted" (clearly present tense) or "I have
deleted xxx.c" (perfect tense, describing the current state).
The grammar of verb-less sentence fragments is at least debatable. Not
that I want to propose debating it: I don't think there is anything that
needs fixing in current practice.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-10 9:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-07 13:55 Adding M-x iwconfig to net-utils.el Yoni Rabkin
2008-02-08 2:43 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-08 4:21 ` Yoni Rabkin
2008-02-08 4:27 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-08 4:42 ` Yoni Rabkin
2008-02-08 18:48 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-09 1:34 ` Glenn Morris
2008-02-09 1:43 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-09 2:19 ` Glenn Morris
2008-02-09 2:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-09 2:42 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-09 3:16 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-02-09 15:06 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-02-10 3:20 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-10 3:46 ` Glenn Morris
2008-02-12 0:01 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-02-10 9:19 ` David Kastrup [this message]
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