From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
Cc: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>,
Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: master 1d4862e: Fix English grammar in some doc strings and comments
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 23:03:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAeL0SR0viLiDS8c5mO4PAS7tGcN9S1tQYfo_rg28jLXLrCtqw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871runxqjq.fsf@gmx.net>
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On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 10:47 PM Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
wrote:
> The following passage from _The Cambridge Grammar of the English
> Language_ (Huddleston, Pullum, et al., (c) 2002, pp590-591) is apropos:
I'm not surprised, because George K. Pullum has an history of exposing (in
the Language Log blog and elsewhere) that kind of prescriptive imposition
as baseless. His tirades against the recommendation to avoid passives are
legendary.
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[not found] ` <20191104023803.36ABA20A3C@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2019-11-04 12:51 ` master 1d4862e: Fix English grammar in some doc strings and comments Juanma Barranquero
2019-11-04 17:21 ` Stephen Gildea
2019-11-04 20:33 ` Joost Kremers
2019-11-04 21:37 ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-11-04 21:47 ` Stephen Berman
2019-11-04 22:03 ` Juanma Barranquero [this message]
2019-11-06 3:28 ` Richard Stallman
2019-11-07 10:47 ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-11-07 19:32 ` Richard Stallman
2019-11-07 19:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-08 3:35 ` Paul Eggert
2019-11-08 4:24 ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-11-08 21:31 ` Paul Eggert
2019-11-08 21:51 ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-11-08 4:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-09 3:31 ` Richard Stallman
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