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Re: Strange English in the manual


From: Reuben Thomas
Subject: Re: Strange English in the manual
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 15:49:51 +0100 (CET)

> > "If a staff is ended halfway a piece,"
> >
> > Am I just being stupid, or is this a bit weird?
>
> For a bunch of non-native English speakers, the developers
> do a fantastic job of writing documentation.

Indeed.

> The only exception is a persistent inability to write "staves"
> instead of "staffs", but I think that is some kind of joke.

It's American usage.

> Your posts are helpful I'm sure, but supply a better rendering
> if you can.  I'm sure you didn't intend sarcasm, did you?  daveA

In this case I couldn't work out what it meant.

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