From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master 1d4862e: Fix English grammar in some doc strings and comments Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 23:03:58 +0100 Message-ID: References: <14407.1572888070@quatro> <8736f3js95.fsf@fastmail.fm> <871runxqjq.fsf@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="000000000000564fb205968c80fd" Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="173321"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: Joost Kremers , Emacs developers To: Stephen Berman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 04 23:06:27 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iRkUS-000inH-W4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2019 23:06:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38936 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iRkUR-0007MY-3k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2019 17:06:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43992) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iRkSn-0005zr-3I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2019 17:04:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iRkSm-0003tZ-5Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2019 17:04:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-qt1-x834.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::834]:40632) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iRkSk-0003nZ-7G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2019 17:04:38 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-qt1-x834.google.com with SMTP id o49so26326776qta.7 for ; Mon, 04 Nov 2019 14:04:37 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=iNlfUR+TFs0bsVHQRSHoeLwLxcrvk0cpZw+HjBNWi+U=; b=DhzzpPdjpBTZPYX+oIO1WA+zqwPO5eVBHrkJfOc2x4v5QB6Ln9h/rBLqCIl+LAh22U jIGwhbG/ZyU/rZvcWlQIXzYGFXtUbeEsV2Rk2kQLm6gI/9BVCgEqBsgprAtyQl3RxmKK 28xHz10r3U6J0qCtmIaAYqWAunzXapbcZPVwUgyxMJtUm0ULx1p2o1/HQtuTDYfUOFsu djvM61fVuTfALbbh1nYNt7Js2ErOuWc/f+De1k7KMnsAxZK4TQBFKSfbahZvVMjhYDc+ 83vWjUV7raAGEJ+gXpEgg+d59QouJUUDbYapJeIRZg/KyNBrF5QD5be+xfkN3MXmXqEj RUGw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=iNlfUR+TFs0bsVHQRSHoeLwLxcrvk0cpZw+HjBNWi+U=; b=TekMyXrVwf8iDWsIl9lSzKGiuziX6RYoS6QFXemfVexQVxjqCxeJXrUdQ9B0BBrWFX FehBU2FpSxxThWXx/TNMySQm+8Hirfci/XG6tmdZG++qz9HEP9eYCRJQHtOU+oyWEikE HEzPo14s7GxLBbg13Xj1UBzC32VlGSf3TaOToNbjyTp+mW8LQi/TfII5+F3b3E6lI97Q +hb0q1oxmTO3Kkrx1j43zEuMNISfUkvwqRN2xXo+/q11cbe3H2xRs23j7obcqfFmtS8k z1DGDRZl6PS1cZklvhUE6fv65J3jaMY+gxOZReeUuCqlhAuYn+WokfbAOflyvZOmVSwk c6LA== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAUDSpaGewD9bLMKSuz8WtAOemkysP4uWYir6ZKrzdB1O8uzYFaS /P2jM83/aPXOLBzFowJD33X2W4rHDO2mScFiV28= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqz4jYDDibgJJPTDFk1IsR6601o39tTHzangj8YS3Erx04YJbZiPZcayOpXfeZT/xi/urJhjgDKlUwk7A+wLFAg= X-Received: by 2002:ac8:7b9a:: with SMTP id p26mr14853390qtu.287.1572905076279; Mon, 04 Nov 2019 14:04:36 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <871runxqjq.fsf@gmx.net> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4864:20::834 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:241792 Archived-At: --000000000000564fb205968c80fd Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 10:47 PM Stephen Berman wrote: > The following passage from _The Cambridge Grammar of the English > Language_ (Huddleston, Pullum, et al., (c) 2002, pp590-591) is apropos: I'm not surprised, because George K. Pullum has an history of exposing (in the Language Log blog and elsewhere) that kind of prescriptive imposition as baseless. His tirades against the recommendation to avoid passives are legendary. --000000000000564fb205968c80fd Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 10:47 PM Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> wrote:
> The following passage from _The Cambridge Grammar of the Eng= lish
> Language_ (Huddleston, Pullum, et al., (c) 2002, pp590-591) is= apropos:

I'm not surprised, because George K. Pullum has an his= tory of exposing (in the Language Log blog and elsewhere) that kind of pres= criptive imposition as baseless. His tirades against the recommendation to = avoid passives are legendary.
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