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From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
Cc: 23746@debbugs.gnu.org, npostavs@users.sourceforge.net
Subject: bug#23746: 25.0.95; Doc fixes (grammar, typos, clarification)
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 15:40:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e56a410d-48d4-3c74-95e5-ccb98834e35f@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83vb1efd9v.fsf@gnu.org>

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.

As a native speaker of English, I agree with Noam on this.  "may wish 
telling" sounds wrong.

Ken





  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-12 19:40 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 [this message]
2016-06-12 21:09               ` Noam Postavsky
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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