Re: Stop fiddling with the bloody grammar (was Re: exempli gratia is e.g.)

2005-09-13 Thread Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Michael G Schwern wrote: What it does add is MAINTENANCE COST. Maintaining an extreme level of grammatical correctness and consistency over a large collection with multiple authors takes time and effort not just from the person doing the initial grammar fix but from all the CPAN authors who

Re: Stop fiddling with the bloody grammar (was Re: exempli gratia is e.g.)

2005-09-13 Thread David Landgren
Michael G Schwern wrote: [...] While I thank you very much for the effort to scan the documentation to find grammar nits, and I realize Open Source is about scratching an itch, software is about change management. Which is why I say to stop fiddling with the (ie/i.e.)'s, the (eg/e.g.)'s, the

Re: Stop fiddling with the bloody grammar (was Re: exempli gratia is e.g.)

2005-09-13 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Michael == Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael I'm going to come at this from a different angle. One that Michael says leave it as ie/eg or perhaps simply who cares? Michael because the effort to correct all the ie's and eg's and it's Michael and [ae]ffects just doesn't seem

Stop fiddling with the bloody grammar (was Re: exempli gratia is e.g.)

2005-09-12 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 01:04:00PM -0400, Mark Jason Dominus wrote: I was struck by one of my own: exempli gratia being abbreviated to eg or eg., rather than e.g. I would like to suggest that Latin is obscure, and latin abbreviations are doubly obscure. There is no space constraint that