On 03/01/10 15:31, Claire Wood wrote:
Hi All
I've noticed some common faults with grammar and thought I should raise
this, just as a reminder or aid for anyone that is not a native-English
speaker/writer.
You're completely right :-) I often find that rewriting the sentences
will remove the "need" to start a sentence with "Because" or "But".
Sometimes the grammar oopses arrive in the text because it's written by
a non-native speaker... or you get text written the odd hybrid like me
who is a native English speaker, but gets things muddled because he's
spent the last 12 years living and working in non-English parts of the
planet and mixes up the English grammar with the grammar of the local
language :-P Sometimes the writer is writing as they speak which can
also lead to some of the odd grammar.
Anyway, please keep up the edits. you've got fresh eyes on the texts,
not blinded by multiple reads and edits. The more we all tweak out the
little errors and oddities, the better our manuals become (and the
easier they are to translate).
C.
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Clayton Cornell [email protected]
OpenOffice.org Documentation Project co-lead
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