From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: John Williams <jrw@pobox.com>
Cc: 28790@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28790: Replaced "which see" with "q.v.".
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 20:26:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1e2noB-0006mx-Dn@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEdRJLAQAB6ue48r_AxDhLpeDRsg3KL2z5aj+_b7bvzfGpETEg@mail.gmail.com> (message from John Williams on Wed, 11 Oct 2017 14:22:50 -0700)
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"This is about foobar, which see" is a customary usage in English.
Perhaps not used so much nowadays as 50 years ago. People who don't
know it will have a good chance of figuring it out from the meanings
of the two words."
As for "q.v.", that is an erudite abbreviation that most people won't know,
and won't have any way to figure out.
Thus, this change would make the text harder to understand. Please
don't make this change.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-13 0:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-11 21:22 bug#28790: [PATCH] Replaced "which see" with "q.v." John Williams
2017-10-12 1:44 ` Nick Helm
2017-10-12 3:51 ` Drew Adams
2017-10-12 6:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-14 22:07 ` Glenn Morris
2017-10-14 22:52 ` John Williams
2017-10-15 2:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-15 0:19 ` João Távora
2017-10-15 1:03 ` John Williams
2017-10-15 15:31 ` Drew Adams
2017-10-16 1:55 ` Richard Stallman
2017-10-16 21:47 ` Alan Third
2017-10-15 2:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-13 0:26 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2017-10-13 18:34 ` bug#28790: " John Williams
2017-10-13 18:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-24 15:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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