From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jay Belanger Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs documentation: what's active voice, passive voice? Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2010 14:38:32 -0500 Organization: mail2news@dizum.com Message-ID: <877hhz6p8n.fsf@gmail.com> References: <4ca8659e$0$50453$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <322eca01-3bf5-4078-9439-57ba9503afc6@k1g2000prl.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291886494 10918 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 09:21:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 09:21:34 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 10:21:29 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQcgm-0000oZ-Nr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 10:21:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56289 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQcgl-00067c-P1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 04:21:23 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!news.wiretrip.org!news.dizum.com!sewer-output!mail2news Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:5pRbJM4UNPBkiM/T9vewKqWXfrM= X-Vpipe: Scanner said ok (av_avast) X-IP-stats: Incoming Last 0, First 806, in=703, out=0, spam=0 ip=24.116.73.151 X-Originating-IP: 24.116.73.151 X-Abuse-Info: Send abuse complaints to abuse@cableone.net Mail-To-News-Contact: abuse@dizum.com Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:181620 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:76915 Archived-At: > Then I would have to write "I varied the parameters and ran the test > again." That just doesn't strike me as good style for a technical > paper. Why not? > The point is not who did it but that it was done. What difference > would it make if a monkey did it, as long as he did it right? But you were talking about style, not content.