On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 10:13 PM, Kevin Grittner <kgri...@ymail.com> wrote: > For the initial patch, I agree with all except the first change of > "others'" to "other's" -- the start of the sentence uses "All", so > there is clearly more than one "other", so the the apostrophe > belongs after the "s".
Not arguing against this, but all the grammar advice I've read suggests that "each others' " is always wrong. For example http://jakubmarian.com/each-others-vs-each-others-in-english/ To illustrate this better, supposedly the "other" can be swapped out for "statement": All the statements are executed with the same snapshot, so they cannot see each statements' effects / each statement's effects What do you think? > I think most or all of the places that the 0002- patch (i.e. and > e.g.) need a change to look right, but I'm not sure this goes far > enough. In style guides I've had to use these generally should > follow punctuation (left parenthesis, colon, semi-colon, comma, or > em dash), and be separated from any following text by punctuation > -- usually a comma. This matches my research too. I wrote two rules to add commas where no punctation was being used: <Typo word="Add comma after i.e. & e.g." find="\b([Ii]\.e|[Ee]\.g)\.? ?(\s|$)" replace="$1.,$2" /> <Typo word="Add comma before i.e. & e.g." find="([a-z])(\s+([Ii]\.e|[Ee]\.g))\b" replace="$1,$2" /> Attached is the updated 0002 patch. I skimmed over all the differences and they looked good to me, but with 124 more lines touched, it's possible that I missed something. > In patch 0003- I agree that the change to "exactly the same" reads > better. I'm torn on changing the hyphens to spaces. I probably > wouldn't change them Agreed. I'll move the "exactly the same" hunk to patch 0001 once we settle the "each other" question. Thanks, Marti
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