From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: joostkremers@fastmail.fm, stephen.berman@gmx.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 1d4862e: Fix English grammar in some doc strings and comments
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 14:32:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1iSnWT-0008BV-Px@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAeL0SS6m0FcZRJfuU9j_U+SbHOKXcxVFw_QyK2uH1AO6RfMMw@mail.gmail.com> (message from Juanma Barranquero on Thu, 7 Nov 2019 11:47:32 +0100)
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> True. But in the case discussed, I suspect most native English speakers
> will find the original sentences more natural, and not ambiguous at all.
You may be right about that. But many of the people who read our
manual are not native speakers of English. The ambiguity may take
some work for them to figure out.
(This is why I object when "they" is used for a singular antecedent.
If there is another possible antecedent which is plural, it takes work
to figure out which meaning is intended.)
--
Dr Richard Stallman
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
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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
2019-11-06 3:28 ` Richard Stallman
2019-11-07 10:47 ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-11-07 19:32 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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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