From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What're the proper names for the backspace and delete keys in files.texi?
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:09:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zmm0ijes.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1060112211540.325D-100000@acm.acm> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Thu, 12 Jan 2006 21:27:42 +0000 (GMT)")
Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
> On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>>> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 13:16:59 +0000 (GMT)
>>> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
>>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
>>> Incidentally, is "a short WAYS above" intentionally so (some dialect of
>>> English I don't know), or should it read "a short WAY above"?
>
>>No, it's "short ways", which means nearby. Like I said: it's not
>>immediately understandable.
>
> Agreed. :-)
I don't agree! "a short ways" may be considered proper in the US, but
in the UK it is definitely still US-style slang, and it may not be
understood in other English-speaking places.
Let's please change this to "a short way above", which is standard
English usage everywhere.
Regards,
Neil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-13 9:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-19 21:47 What're the proper names for the backspace and delete keys in files.texi? Alan Mackenzie
2005-12-20 5:33 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-20 7:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-01-12 13:16 ` Alan Mackenzie
2006-01-12 20:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-12 21:27 ` Alan Mackenzie
2006-01-13 8:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-13 9:09 ` Neil Jerram [this message]
2006-01-13 16:55 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-01-13 17:26 ` Neil Jerram
2006-01-13 20:03 ` Aidan Kehoe
2006-01-13 19:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-13 21:31 ` Drew Adams
2006-01-19 17:45 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-01-16 12:39 ` Alan Mackenzie
2006-01-16 18:48 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2006-01-17 3:25 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-01-17 11:00 ` Alan Mackenzie
2006-01-17 19:59 ` Richard M. Stallman
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