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bug#23746: 25.0.95; Doc fixes (grammar, typos, clarification)
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Stephen Berman |
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bug#23746: 25.0.95; Doc fixes (grammar, typos, clarification) |
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Sun, 12 Jun 2016 19:58:27 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.95 (gnu/linux) |
On Sat, 11 Jun 2016 16:21:19 -0400 Noam Postavsky
<npostavs@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 3:22 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > This goes against the rest of the changes, which correctly made the
>>> > opposite replacement. I see no reason to make the opposite change
>>> > here.
>>>
>>> I don't understand what you mean; the changes in that hunk are strictly
>>> grammatical corrections (underlined).
>>
>> Yes. They are just backwards: "may wish telling" => "may wish to tell".
>>
>
> 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?
Steve Berman
- bug#23746: 25.0.95; Doc fixes (grammar, typos, clarification), Stephen Berman, 2016/06/11
- bug#23746: 25.0.95; Doc fixes (grammar, typos, clarification), Eli Zaretskii, 2016/06/11
- bug#23746: 25.0.95; Doc fixes (grammar, typos, clarification), Stephen Berman, 2016/06/11
- bug#23746: 25.0.95; Doc fixes (grammar, typos, clarification), Eli Zaretskii, 2016/06/11
- bug#23746: 25.0.95; Doc fixes (grammar, typos, clarification), Noam Postavsky, 2016/06/11
- bug#23746: 25.0.95; Doc fixes (grammar, typos, clarification),
Stephen Berman <=
- bug#23746: 25.0.95; Doc fixes (grammar, typos, clarification), Eli Zaretskii, 2016/06/12
- bug#23746: 25.0.95; Doc fixes (grammar, typos, clarification), Ken Brown, 2016/06/12
- bug#23746: 25.0.95; Doc fixes (grammar, typos, clarification), Noam Postavsky, 2016/06/12
- bug#23746: 25.0.95; Doc fixes (grammar, typos, clarification), Eli Zaretskii, 2016/06/13
- bug#23746: 25.0.95; Doc fixes (grammar, typos, clarification), Stephen Berman, 2016/06/13
- bug#23746: 25.0.95; Doc fixes (grammar, typos, clarification), Stephen Berman, 2016/06/13
- bug#23746: 25.0.95; Doc fixes (grammar, typos, clarification), Eli Zaretskii, 2016/06/13
- bug#23746: 25.0.95; Doc fixes (grammar, typos, clarification), Stephen Berman, 2016/06/13
- bug#23746: 25.0.95; Doc fixes (grammar, typos, clarification), Eli Zaretskii, 2016/06/13
- bug#23746: 25.0.95; Doc fixes (grammar, typos, clarification), Stephen Berman, 2016/06/13