For the most part this barely merits consideration. We're a wiki. When someone's idea of a well-written sentence differs from mine they're welcome to revise it.
Two pet peeves: 1. POV-pushers who use 'copyediting' as a pretext to insinuate content changes. 2. Copyeditors who don't actually copyedit but instead install themselves at featured content processes, telling other people what to do. -Durova On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Charles Matthews > <charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com> 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 > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > -- http://durova.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l