From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: 38660@debbugs.gnu.org, michael.albinus@gmx.de, jidanni@jidanni.org
Subject: bug#38660: ange-ftp.el grammar
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 17:42:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83tv5w1fvn.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a77oyan7.fsf@gmx.de> (message from Michael Albinus on Thu, 19 Dec 2019 09:36:44 +0100)
> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 09:36:44 +0100
> Cc: 38660-done@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:
>
> > MA> I'm not a native English speaker, but to me it sounds like active
> > MA> voice. What's wrong with this?
> >
> > Well all I know is there is
> >>> ;; then ange-ftp spawns an FTP process, connect to the host 'anorman' as
> > ^an "s" here, ^but not here, etc. Odd.
>
> Hmm, there is a mix of active and passive voice.
Not active and passive, but singular and plural.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-19 15:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-18 4:06 bug#38660: ange-ftp.el grammar 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-12-18 18:28 ` Michael Albinus
2019-12-18 23:30 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-12-19 8:36 ` Michael Albinus
2019-12-19 15:42 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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