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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
Cc: "Øystein Walle" <oystwa@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: fix typos in man pages
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 08:05:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vehagxf3q.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51F7D2FA.7020208@xiplink.com> (Marc Branchaud's message of "Tue, 30 Jul 2013 10:51:38 -0400")

Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com> writes:

> I personally don't have a lot of time to investigate the nuances of English.
> However, I desperately hope this list can avoid any linguistic flame wars.
> In that spirit, I suggest that anyone posting an orthographic patch (i.e. for
> something that isn't an obvious spelling mistake) could helpfully include a
> link or two to an explanation of the reasoning for the change.  Especially
> for folks who aren't native English speakers, this could help avoid a lot of
> back-and-forth.
>
> One general source I've found is the English StackExchange:
> 	http://english.stackexchange.com/

I'd rather not to see any change that turns one accepted form into
another accepted form at all (like "parseable" vs "parsable" in this
patch).  For that purpose, asking "What is parseable" to Google and
seeing if there is a hit is good enough ;-)

I'd of course welcome genuine typofixes, like s/filesytem/filesystem/.

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-30 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-29 21:15 [PATCH] Documentation: fix typos in man pages Øystein Walle
2013-07-30 14:51 ` Marc Branchaud
2013-07-30 15:05   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2013-07-30 15:11   ` [PATCH] Specify UK English for the documentation source files Marc Branchaud
2013-07-30 15:52     ` Fredrik Gustafsson
2013-07-30 16:40     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-01 15:10     ` [PATCH v2] Provide some linguistic guidance for the documentation Marc Branchaud
2013-08-01 15:14       ` Marc Branchaud
2013-08-01 18:21       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-01 18:49         ` [PATCH v3] " Marc Branchaud
2013-08-02  6:25         ` [PATCH v2] " Jonathan Nieder
2013-08-02 14:16           ` Marc Branchaud
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-02-05 22:19 [PATCH] Documentation: fix typos in man pages Øystein Walle
2014-02-05 22:35 ` Junio C Hamano

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