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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings |
| Date: | Wed, 16 Sep 2015 00:49:13 -0700 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 |
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Shame on us for failing to write good expressive English for fear of quotes.
I didn't remove those quotes due to fear. I removed them because they made the manual harder to read. Quotes are important to get right in English, and part of getting it right is to avoid overusing them.
To be fair, the unnecessary quotes in the manual weren't as bad as these: http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/
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