From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.bugs Subject: Re: Typos in the manual Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 23:55:55 +0000 Message-ID: <87r5b87sz8.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> References: <20110208202529.GD16805@gmx.de> <874o88kbbs.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <20110213070044.GA26711@gmx.de> <4D5AA042.7080904@gentoo.org> <8CD9B65173EF374-714-6B9@webmail-d099.sysops.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1297814176 27850 80.91.229.12 (15 Feb 2011 23:56:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 23:56:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-guile@gnu.org, Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de To: Mark Harig Original-X-From: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 16 00:56:10 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-bugs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PpUkb-0001MA-Sa for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:56:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38508 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PpUkb-0003fw-FQ for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:56:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47270 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PpUkV-0003fr-9v for bug-guile@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:56:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PpUkU-0006pe-Fh for bug-guile@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:56:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mail3.uklinux.net ([80.84.72.33]:56307) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PpUkU-0006pY-A2 for bug-guile@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:56:02 -0500 Original-Received: from arudy (unknown [78.145.19.199]) by mail3.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C53FB1F6656; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 23:55:56 +0000 (GMT) Original-Received: from neil-laptop (unknown [192.168.11.4]) by arudy (Postfix) with ESMTP id A97823801E; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 23:55:55 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: <8CD9B65173EF374-714-6B9@webmail-d099.sysops.aol.com> (Mark Harig's message of "Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:21:41 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-Received-From: 80.84.72.33 X-BeenThere: bug-guile@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.bugs:5144 Archived-At: Mark Harig writes: > Likewise, "make an intervention" implies that the author intends to > intervene or stop or prevent something. But the author is not hoping > to stop compiler junkies from continuing their habit of writing code > for compilers -- to the contrary. Given the text that follows this > phrase, "make an interjection" is probably what was intended. > Alternatively, "make an entreaty" would describe the type of > interjection that is to follow. Thanks. I agree that "make an intervention" isn't right. I've gone for "At this point we take a detour from the impersonal tone of the rest of the manual." Does that sound OK? Neil