On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Charles Matthews <[email protected]> wrote: > Clearly, though, this is a cultural matter. "Readability" in this sort > of sense is conditioned by the expectation that the written language is > very close to the spoken language, for example, which is something for > which you can find widely varying types of cases if you go to different > languages. (It is hard to imagine this thread going the same way with > French speakers, in particular.)
Dunno. I've written technical documents in French. I'll say this: French grammar is harder than English grammar, with more clear-cut rules, and many French people make mistakes. They frequently use constructions such as "Après qu'il soit là", which is technically an error (though I seem to recall the Académie Française eventually conceded defeat on that one...) > On the topic, "most known" occurs frequently in enWP, rather than "best > known". I would change that. And, sadly, "more known" also is common, > rather than "better known". I think for the latter one can speak frankly > of a grammatical error: "known" is a participle rather than an > adjective, while "well-known" is certainly an adjective, with > comparative and superlative forms. Hmm. "Known" looks and behaves a lot like an adjective there. I don't think I'd write "most known", but I wouldn't be rushing to correct it either. I guess I'd see it as an example of poor quality writing rather than an error as such. Steve _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
