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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: gregory@heytings.org, rpluim@gmail.com, stefankangas@gmail.com,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: feature/eglot-texi-manual 4725c123f3 2/5: ; eglot.texi: Fix typos and minor inconsistenciesfeature/eglot-texi-manual 4725c123f3 2/5: ; eglot.texi: Fix typos and minor inconsistencies
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2022 15:14:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1omgQB-0006mc-Hr@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83lep9ww4e.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 21 Oct 2022 09:04:17 +0300)

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[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]

  > > IMHO, it doesn't.  And, FWIW, here's what the CMOS says:

  > Please don't care too much about what the CMOS says.  There are enough
  > native English speakers here to offer advice on good technical English
  > (I personally have always benefited from excellent advice from RMS,
  > whenever I had any such problems).

My advice, nowadays, is to avoid the old English erudite Latin
abbreviations.  They offer no advantage over the plain English
expressions that everyone will understand.

In the GNU C Language Introduction and Reference Manual, I have
avoided them completely. That was easy and had no downside.

We have made overall style changes many times in GNU manuals.  To do
so for the whole Emacs Manual would be a big job, so we might not
decide to do it, but it's not unreasonable in principle.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)





  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-10-23 19:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-20 10:38 feature/eglot-texi-manual 4725c123f3 2/5: ; eglot.texi: Fix typos and minor inconsistenciesfeature/eglot-texi-manual 4725c123f3 2/5: ; eglot.texi: Fix typos and minor inconsistencies Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-20 10:59 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-10-20 13:51   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-20 11:35 ` Robert Pluim
2022-10-20 12:24   ` Stefan Kangas
     [not found]     ` <87a65qty8a.fsf@gmail.com>
2022-10-20 13:50       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-22 19:59         ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-23  5:13           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-23 13:19             ` Stefan Kangas
2022-10-23 16:18               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-20 15:02       ` Stefan Kangas
2022-10-20 16:18         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-20 20:34       ` Gregory Heytings
2022-10-20 22:35         ` Tim Cross
2022-10-21  6:04         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-21  8:41           ` Gregory Heytings
2022-10-23 19:14           ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2022-10-23 19:21             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-23 19:13         ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-20 15:11 ` Rudolf Adamkovič
2022-10-20 16:20   ` Eli Zaretskii

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