>>>>> Scott Kostyshak <skost...@princeton.edu> >>>>> on Fri, 19 Jul 2013 03:34:20 -0400 writes:
> I have two comments regarding the Posting Guide: > (1) The link in the following sentence did not work for me: > Take care when you quote other people's comments to respect their > rights, e.g., as summarized here[a]. > [a] http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/help/policy/copyright.htm > Has it been changed to the following? > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/copyrightissues.html > (2) Regarding the following extract > `If you feel insulted by some response to a post of yours, don't > make any hasty response in return - you're as likely as not to regret > it.' > wouldn't someone who is `as likely as not to regret it' be indifferent > between sending a hasty response and not sending a hasty response? The > intent is perfectly clear but perhaps `you're _more_ likely than not' > is a more probabilistically correct expression? > Thanks for the helpful document -- it is useful reading for this list > as well as more generally. Thank you, Scott. I've made both amendments that you've proposed above. The 2nd one is most probably more helpful for non-native English readers/speakers may .. when it may be nice and better style for some flavor of real English .. Martin > Scott > -- > Scott Kostyshak > Economics PhD Candidate > Princeton University > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel