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Re: feature/eglot-texi-manual 4725c123f3 2/5: ; eglot.texi: Fix typos an
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Robert Pluim |
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Re: feature/eglot-texi-manual 4725c123f3 2/5: ; eglot.texi: Fix typos and minor inconsistenciesfeature/eglot-texi-manual 4725c123f3 2/5: ; eglot.texi: Fix typos and minor inconsistencies |
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Thu, 20 Oct 2022 17:32:46 +0200 |
>>>>> On Thu, 20 Oct 2022 08:02:12 -0700, Stefan Kangas
>>>>> <stefankangas@gmail.com> said:
Stefan> Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
>> You donʼt want progressive, you want conservative:
Stefan> No, I just had no idea that this particular rule was contentious:
Stefan> 1. I first learned about the difference between "which" or "that" on
Stefan> this list (or bug-gnu-emacs), and no one protested against the
advice
Stefan> given to me at the time.
I donʼt know which advice that was. Iʼve protested against similar
egregious changes in the past.
Stefan> 2. Any reference I could find recommended it (admittedly, I only
checked
Stefan> the top 1-2 hits on the web).
>> if the existing text is not clearly incorrect, donʼt change it, even
>> if thereʼs some guide that says itʼs 'wrong'.
Stefan> You could be a bit more generous here, perhaps.
Itʼs English grammar: itʼs the most generous one in existence, it can
tolerate some measure of "possibly not 100% correct" :-)
Stefan> From the advice given to me, and the sources I found, I drew the
Stefan> conclusion precisely that using "that" is "clearly incorrect". I
did
Stefan> not have any reason to think this advice was wrong, or stylistic
Stefan> preference, or personal, or conservative, or anything of the kind.
The sources you read were no doubt written by grammarians: they have a
tendency to be prescriptive and see things in only two shades.
Stefan> I'm sure there are hundreds or even thousands of these pitfalls in
the
Stefan> English language. When people try to improve the documentation, I
think
Stefan> we can point out such pitfalls.
Nobody is suggesting anything else. In fact, I thought that was what
we were doing here (it certainly makes a change from telling people
to put two spaces after a '.').
Robert
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