From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "morzahavi@me.com" <morzahavi@me.com>
Cc: 51271@debbugs.gnu.org, stefan@marxist.se
Subject: bug#51271: Typo's in Emacs documentation
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2021 19:14:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r1biu0bp.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <PR3P193MB0894CE13934C944DB3B6C403FB979@PR3P193MB0894.EURP193.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM> (morzahavi@me.com)
> From: "morzahavi@me.com" <morzahavi@me.com>
> CC: "stefan@marxist.se" <stefan@marxist.se>, "51271@debbugs.gnu.org"
> <51271@debbugs.gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2021 16:59:21 +0000
>
> I don’t understand – how can there be many kinds of a singular form? How can there be a few of a singular
> form?
It's a special English form that is relatively rarely used. But it is
nevertheless correct.
> Where is the comment you’ve added?
In the Texinfo source. I show it below:
@c This and the next paragraph say ``kinds of atom'', but that is not
@c a typo, just slightly ``old-fashioned wording which adds a fillip
@c of interest to it'', and ``is more elegant writing'', according to
@c RMS.
As you see, I consulted with Richard Stallman about this issue,
because I had a gut feeling the original wording was correct, but
wasn't sure. Bob Chassell, who wrote that manual, always used 100%
correct English.
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2021-10-18 16:41 ` bug#51271: Typo's in Emacs documentation Mor Zahavi via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-10-19 0:45 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-11-14 16:05 ` morzahavi@me.com via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-11-14 16:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-14 16:59 ` morzahavi@me.com via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-11-14 17:14 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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