Re: [PATCH 1/8] CodingGuidelines: typofix
Felipe Contreras writes: > Jeff King wrote: >> On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 11:31:10AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> >> > But let's follow this one: >> > >> > http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=judgement%20call%2C%20judgment%20call&cmpt=q >> > >> > which seems to say that with 'e' is more common. >> >> Grammar by democracy. ;) > > Languages are a democracy. There's no authority that decides if > "unibrow" should become part of the English language. We all do. Well, and the U.S. justice system rather supports the hyphenation judge- mental. -- David Kastrup -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: [PATCH 1/8] CodingGuidelines: typofix
Jeff King wrote: > On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 11:31:10AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > But let's follow this one: > > > > http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=judgement%20call%2C%20judgment%20call&cmpt=q > > > > which seems to say that with 'e' is more common. > > Grammar by democracy. ;) Languages are a democracy. There's no authority that decides if "unibrow" should become part of the English language. We all do. -- Felipe Contreras -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: [PATCH 1/8] CodingGuidelines: typofix
On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 11:31:10AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > But let's follow this one: > > http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=judgement%20call%2C%20judgment%20call&cmpt=q > > which seems to say that with 'e' is more common. Grammar by democracy. ;) > *1* To Americans, the form with 'e' is abomination. Wikipedia > claims that (1) without 'e' is in legal and (2) with 'e' in other > contexts in British (this particular one is a non-legal use), and > (3) both are equally acceptable in non-legal contexts in Austraria > and Canada. That is what I found most interesting about the discussion. The reason I bothered to look it up and say something is that as an American, I would without a doubt spell it with the "e", contradicting what I found online. Oh well. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: [PATCH 1/8] CodingGuidelines: typofix
Jeff King writes: > On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 10:51:19AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> > If you want to fix something here, do s/judgement/judgment/ instead. >> >> That too. > > FWIW, neither is outright wrong; it is an America/British variation, and > apparently dictionaries disagree on which is preferred. My reading of various "grammar" sites was that even though variation exists[*1*], the form without 'e' is the traditionally preferred form, and that is why I said "That too". But let's follow this one: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=judgement%20call%2C%20judgment%20call&cmpt=q which seems to say that with 'e' is more common. [Footnote] *1* To Americans, the form with 'e' is abomination. Wikipedia claims that (1) without 'e' is in legal and (2) with 'e' in other contexts in British (this particular one is a non-legal use), and (3) both are equally acceptable in non-legal contexts in Austraria and Canada. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: [PATCH 1/8] CodingGuidelines: typofix
On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 10:51:19AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > If you want to fix something here, do s/judgement/judgment/ instead. > > That too. FWIW, neither is outright wrong; it is an America/British variation, and apparently dictionaries disagree on which is preferred. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: [PATCH 1/8] CodingGuidelines: typofix
David Kastrup writes: > Junio C Hamano writes: > >> The sentence lacked the necessary verb. > > No, it didn't. > >> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano >> --- >> Documentation/CodingGuidelines | 2 +- >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) >> >> diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines >> index f424dbd..fdf6269 100644 >> --- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines >> +++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines >> @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ code. For Git in general, three rough rules are: >> let's use it". >> >> Again, we live in the real world, and it is sometimes a >^^ >> - judgement call, the decision based more on real world >> + judgement call, the decision is based more on real world >> constraints people face than what the paper standard says. > > There is one common "is" for original statement and paraphrase. Adding > another one turns this into two sentences which cannot sensibly be > connected with a comma. Thanks for spotting. I thought (but I see I didn't by mistake) that I split them into two sentences, replacing the comma with a semicolon. > If you want to fix something here, do s/judgement/judgment/ instead. That too. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: [PATCH 1/8] CodingGuidelines: typofix
Junio C Hamano writes: > The sentence lacked the necessary verb. No, it didn't. > Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano > --- > Documentation/CodingGuidelines | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines > index f424dbd..fdf6269 100644 > --- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines > +++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines > @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ code. For Git in general, three rough rules are: > let's use it". > > Again, we live in the real world, and it is sometimes a ^^ > - judgement call, the decision based more on real world > + judgement call, the decision is based more on real world > constraints people face than what the paper standard says. There is one common "is" for original statement and paraphrase. Adding another one turns this into two sentences which cannot sensibly be connected with a comma. If you want to fix something here, do s/judgement/judgment/ instead. -- David Kastrup -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
[PATCH 1/8] CodingGuidelines: typofix
The sentence lacked the necessary verb. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/CodingGuidelines | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines index f424dbd..fdf6269 100644 --- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines +++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ code. For Git in general, three rough rules are: let's use it". Again, we live in the real world, and it is sometimes a - judgement call, the decision based more on real world + judgement call, the decision is based more on real world constraints people face than what the paper standard says. Make your code readable and sensible, and don't try to be clever. -- 2.0.0-rc1-355-gd6d6511 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
