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* Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 89, Issue 2
       [not found] <E1NxMwf-0007YZ-C6@monty-python.gnu.org>
@ 2010-04-01 16:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
  2010-04-02  1:56   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2010-04-01 16:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Chong Yidong; +Cc: emacs-devel

> Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:01:05 -0400
> From: emacs-diffs-request@gnu.org
> 
> revno: 99709
> committer: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
> branch nick: emacs-23
> timestamp: Thu 2010-04-01 11:15:28 -0400
> message:
>   Fix typo.
> modified:
>   doc/lispref/nonascii.texi
> -------------- next part --------------
> === modified file 'doc/lispref/nonascii.texi'
> --- a/doc/lispref/nonascii.texi	2010-01-13 08:35:10 +0000
> +++ b/doc/lispref/nonascii.texi	2010-04-01 15:15:28 +0000
> @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
>  
>    Emacs buffers and strings support a large repertoire of characters
>  from many different scripts, allowing users to type and display text
> -in most any known written language.
> +in almost any known written language.

I don't think this was a typo.




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* Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 89, Issue 2
  2010-04-01 16:57 ` Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 89, Issue 2 Eli Zaretskii
@ 2010-04-02  1:56   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
  2010-04-02  7:29     ` Eli Zaretskii
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Stephen J. Turnbull @ 2010-04-02  1:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Eli Zaretskii; +Cc: Chong Yidong, emacs-devel

Eli Zaretskii writes:

 > > -in most any known written language.
 > > +in almost any known written language.
 > 
 > I don't think this was a typo.

It's a typo.  The vernacular "'most" is spelled with an apostrophe.
Alternatively, "in most known written languages", but "almost any" is
a much stronger statement.






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* Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 89, Issue 2
  2010-04-02  1:56   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
@ 2010-04-02  7:29     ` Eli Zaretskii
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2010-04-02  7:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Stephen J. Turnbull; +Cc: cyd, emacs-devel

> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
> Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>,
>     emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:56:25 +0900
> 
> Eli Zaretskii writes:
> 
>  > > -in most any known written language.
>  > > +in almost any known written language.
>  > 
>  > I don't think this was a typo.
> 
> It's a typo.  The vernacular "'most" is spelled with an apostrophe.
> Alternatively, "in most known written languages", but "almost any" is
> a much stronger statement.

Whatever.  All I know is that googling for "most any" yields
1,330,000,000 hits here.  So maybe it's not 100% correct, but it is
widely used jargon.




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