Only in the context of arbitration cases where some horse's ass took a stand. Establishing a global standard is inevitably an ugly process, as in the old saying that compares the crafting of legislation to the making of sausage.
However, we can strive to maintain a high standard, high enough that if someone adapts our style, their writing won't seem eccentric or illiterate. Fred > Have you ever read any of the more disputatious Manual of Style talk > pages? > > Carcharoth > > On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Fred Bauder<[email protected]> > wrote: >> I suppose, as in matters of internet deportment, civility, we must also >> accept the burden of maintaining the standard for English usage, global >> English usage. It is a grim and dreary business, but I must admit it is >> our responsibility. >> >> Fred >> >>> Fred Bauder wrote: >>>>> For a change, something on English usage. A trawl through some usage >>>>> books tells me nothing much about "most well known", which I'm >>>>> convinced >>>>> is a solecism, and should be "best-known". The hyphenation I think >>>>> is >>>>> standard anyway. Sadly Google believes there are 11,000 instances >>>>> for >>>>> "most well known" on enWP, and I'd prefer none to be in article >>>>> space. >>>>> >>>>> Charles >>>>> >>>> >>>> Well, both expressions, both with and without hyphen, seem to be in >>>> general use. Now that you've mentioned it, I can't recall which of >>>> the >>>> four possibilities I habitually use. Right now "best known" seems >>>> best, >>>> but I wouldn't waste one second changing a most well known into a >>>> best >>>> known. >>>> >>> Ah ... I would. How about "much more well known", versus >>> "better-known", >>> because our general style tends to understatement? Anyway I have been >>> zapping those. Any such trawl finds other problems to fix. >>> >>> Charles >>> >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> WikiEN-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >> > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
