From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
Cc: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>, 23746@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23746: 25.0.95; Doc fixes (grammar, typos, clarification)
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 17:09:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM-tV-_2B0LzMLrFDBi5CWbKcG_yYEdtVUksH1wEWuW5XpMMTA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e56a410d-48d4-3c74-95e5-ccb98834e35f@cornell.edu>
On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 3:40 PM, Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> wrote:
> On 6/12/2016 2:55 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>>
>>> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
>>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 23746@debbugs.gnu.org
>>> Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 19:58:27 +0200
>>>
>>> On Sat, 11 Jun 2016 16:21:19 -0400 Noam Postavsky
>>> <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> As a native English speaker, "your Lisp program may wish telling the
>>>> process" sounds obviously incorrect (though I'm not sure how to
>>>> explain why in terms of grammatical rules). Whereas, "your Lisp
>>>> program may wish to tell the process" is correct.
>>>
>>>
>>> That's one argument for this change; another is the statistical one
>>> based on the existing Emacs documentation:
>>>
>>> steve@rosalinde:/data/steve/git/emacs> grep -r " wish to " doc/ | wc -l
>>> 196
>>> steve@rosalinde:/data/steve/git/emacs> grep -r " wish [a-z]*ing " doc/
>>> doc/lispref/processes.texi:may wish telling the process the dimensions
>>>
>>> Eli, does this persuade you to accept this change too?
>>
>>
>> Sorry, no. There's nothing wrong in the original wording in this
>> case.
I'm sorry, but you're simply wrong on this. The original wording is
grammatically incorrect, please defer to people with more knowledge of
English, as I'm sure anyone would defer to you on a question regarding
Emacs' display engine.
>
>
> As a native speaker of English, I agree with Noam on this. "may wish
> telling" sounds wrong.
>
> Ken
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-12 21:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-11 15:54 bug#23746: 25.0.95; Doc fixes (grammar, typos, clarification) Stephen Berman
2016-06-11 16:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-11 16:32 ` Stephen Berman
2016-06-11 19:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-11 20:21 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-06-12 17:58 ` Stephen Berman
2016-06-12 18:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-12 19:40 ` Ken Brown
2016-06-12 21:09 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2016-06-13 4:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-13 9:20 ` Stephen Berman
2016-06-13 9:25 ` Stephen Berman
2016-06-13 14:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-13 14:27 ` Stephen Berman
2016-06-13 15:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-13 16:12 ` Stephen Berman
2016-06-13 16:22 ` Stephen Berman
2016-06-14 2:43 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-06-14 14:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
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