I would have to disagree here. Since the sentence is a question, the verb should preceed the subject ;-) How can THIS possibly help you?
But I would agree that it reads fine as it is, especially as the tone of the rest of the paragraph appears to be spoken rather than written English... -----Original Message----- From: Jorg Heymans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 31 July 2003 15:22 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Error That is not a grammatical error. If you stress the word "this" a bit more it all makes perfect sense. --> How THIS can possibly help you? Enough said... this has to be the most irrelevant thread ever on this list :-) -----Original Message----- From: Geoff Howard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Donnerstag, 31. Juli 2003 16:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Error Pierotti, Nick wrote: > On web page http://cocoon.apache.org/2.0/introduction.html there is > grammatical error in the last sentence of this paragraph: "Ok, great, > so now instead of having one uniform language with visual semantics > (HTML) we have a babel of languages each with its own semantics. How > this can possibly help you?" It should read: > > How can this possibly help you? > > I would be happy to come on board as a consulting Technical Writer for > your group, to keep such errors from popping up. > > Please contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED], or at [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you're volunteering, just check out the module from cvs, modify the docs and submit a patch. All patches to documentation and code are greatly appreciated. If you're offering paid services, you're barking up the wrong tree. Geoff --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This e-mail is confidential and is intended for the named recipient only. If you receive it in error please destroy the message and all copies. Kainos Software Ltd. does not accept liability for damage sustained as a result of malicious software (e.g. viruses). Kainos does not accept liability for, or permit, the creation of contracts on its behalf by e-mail, the publication of any defamatory statement by its employees by e-mail, or changes subsequently made to the original message. The Company's registered office is located at 4-6 Upper Crescent, Belfast, BT7 1NT, Northern Ireland, Tel +44 28 9057 1100. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
