Daniel Carrera <[email protected]> writes: > Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: >> Trent W. Buck writes: >> >> > When writing, I would put "darcs'", not "darcs's". >> > > As the Darcs documentation manager, I decree that either are >> > acceptable. >> >> IMO that's the worst possible outcome. If you want to be non-Fascist >> about it, it's reasonable to say that >> >> the preferred form is "Darcs'" > > In practise I will always try to rephrase the sentence to avoid the > issue entirely. These "little" orthography or grammar issues can be > irritating or at least distracting to a reader doesn't agree with the > style adopted. And that always creates a barrier between the reader > and the content. Another example is "they" vs "he" vs "he/she". Some > people are appalled at seeing "they" used as a third person singular > pronoun. Others are equally appalled at "he/she" or "(s)he", etc. A > good technical writer will try to avoid these issues, not because of > adherence to correct grammar, but because irritating the reader is > less effective.
+1, precisely. The "preferred" solution is to avoid the issue by rephrasing. _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
