From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Cc: 35287@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35287: dired-do-copy English beef-up
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 23:35:50 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y3491zbd.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874l6zh4ik.2.fsf@jidanni.org> ("積丹尼 Dan Jacobson"'s message of "Mon, 15 Apr 2019 19:49:55 +0800")
> Copy: 11 files
>
> Actually "Copied 11 files" is proper English and doesn't leave us
> somewhat worrying...
Other messages that use the same operation name:
"Copy: 2 of 3 files skipped"
"Copy failed for 2 of 3 files"
Shouldn't the latter be "Copying failed"?
So for every operation three verb forms are needed:
"Copy", "Copying", "Copied", correct?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-16 20:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-15 11:49 bug#35287: dired-do-copy English beef-up 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-04-16 20:35 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2019-04-16 21:57 ` Drew Adams
2019-04-17 19:04 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-04-17 19:58 ` Juri Linkov
2019-04-17 22:53 ` Drew Adams
2019-04-18 10:28 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-04-18 20:59 ` Juri Linkov
2019-04-18 21:10 ` Drew Adams
2019-04-19 2:08 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-04-19 4:33 ` Drew Adams
2019-04-19 13:48 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-04-19 14:28 ` Drew Adams
2019-04-19 15:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-19 15:11 ` Drew Adams
2019-04-19 15:14 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-04-24 20:15 ` Juri Linkov
2019-05-05 19:43 ` Juri Linkov
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