On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 10:58 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:09, Michael JasonSmith wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 22:28 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: > > > At least he got the apostrophe in the right place! > > > > Now does everyone see why GNOME banned the accursed character? > > http://developer.gnome.org/documents/style-guide/grammar.html > <generalisation type='sweeping'> <!- but pretty close to the truth imho --> > The GNOME people had to write an English grammar lesson because the school > systems in most English speaking countries fail spectacularly in that > activity. > </generalisation>
Well, actually they were looking for document consistency right across all the user documentation in GNOME - the people writing most of it at the time were fully qualified paid technical writers, and produce high class, quality documents. They knew what they were doing - sadly Sun pulled the plug on the funding, and we're back to non-native speakers writing again :/ Glynn
