23 Mar
2015
23 Mar
'15
3:44 p.m.
All,
I received this message a couple days ago. Forwarding it to the list so
that we don't lose track of it.
Tim
---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: English spelling
From: Elan Ruusamäe <glen(a)pld-linux.org>
Date: Sat, March 21, 2015 8:19 am
To: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf(a)pearsoncomputing.net>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
hi
i noticed several places of bad spelling, like "is" written as "are":
http://git.trinitydesktop.org/cgit/tdelibs/tree/CMakeLists.txt
| tde_message_fatal( "ltdl.h are required, but not found on your system" )
|
should be written as
| tde_message_fatal( "ltdl.h is required, but not found on your system" )
|
and so on for all items which are singular not plural...
and "informations"! info is uncountable, therefore it's always
"info"
and "information"
http://scm.trinitydesktop.org/scm/git/tde-packaging
"Branch Informations " should be written as "Branch Information"
explanation: http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=215770
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glen
23 Mar
23 Mar
9:49 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-devel] [Fwd: English spelling]
On Monday 23 of March 2015 16:44:32 Timothy Pearson wrote:
All,
I received this message a couple days ago. Forwarding it to the list so
that we don't lose track of it.
Tim
---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: English spelling
From: Elan Ruusamäe <glen(a)pld-linux.org>
Date: Sat, March 21, 2015 8:19 am
To: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf(a)pearsoncomputing.net>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
hi
i noticed several places of bad spelling, like "is" written as
"are":
http://git.trinitydesktop.org/cgit/tdelibs/tree/CMakeLists.txt
| tde_message_fatal( "ltdl.h are required, but not found on your system"
| )
should be written as
| tde_message_fatal( "ltdl.h is required, but not found on your system" )
and so on for all items which are singular not plural...
and "informations"! info is uncountable, therefore it's always
"info"
and "information"
http://scm.trinitydesktop.org/scm/git/tde-packaging
"Branch Informations " should be written as "Branch Information"
explanation: http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=215770
Thank you for the warning! I am aware that I have used 'are × is' several
times (copy & paste the code from Serghei) and although I wondered about it,
I let it be so.
The question is, who will fix it?
--
Slávek
26 Mar
26 Mar
12:17 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-devel] [Fwd: English spelling]
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On 2015/03/24 06:49 AM, Slávek Banko wrote:
I guess we will end up fixing these kind of errors as we come across
them, unless someone wants to prepare a list of errors.
Cheers
Michele
On Monday 23 of March 2015 16:44:32 Timothy Pearson
wrote:
> All,
>
> I received this message a couple days ago. Forwarding it to the
> list so that we don't lose track of it.
>
> Tim
>
> ---------------------------- Original Message
> ---------------------------- Subject: English spelling From: Elan
> Ruusamäe <glen(a)pld-linux.org> Date: Sat, March 21, 2015 8:19
> am To: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf(a)pearsoncomputing.net>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
- -----
>
>
>
>
hi
i noticed several places of bad spelling, like "is" written as
"are":
http://git.trinitydesktop.org/cgit/tdelibs/tree/CMakeLists.txt
| tde_message_fatal( "ltdl.h are required, but not found on
your system" | )
should be written as
| tde_message_fatal( "ltdl.h is required, but not found on
your system" )
and so on for all items which are singular not plural...
and "informations"! info is uncountable, therefore it's always
"info" and "information"
http://scm.trinitydesktop.org/scm/git/tde-packaging "Branch
Informations " should be written as "Branch Information"
explanation:
http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=215770
Thank you for the warning! I am aware that I have used 'are × is'
several times (copy & paste the code from Serghei) and although I
wondered about it, I let it be so.
The question is, who will fix it?
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2:14 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-devel] [Fwd: English spelling]
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On 2015/03/24 06:49 AM, Slávek Banko wrote:
I guess we will end up fixing these kind of errors as we come across
them, unless someone wants to prepare a list of errors.
Cheers
Michele
This sounds like a good task for some of the less technically adept
members of the list. Putting all the instances in an Etherpad document
would allow the developers to go through and fix them rapidly.
Tim
On Monday 23 of March 2015 16:44:32 Timothy
Pearson wrote:
> All,
>
> I received this message a couple days ago. Forwarding it to the
> list so that we don't lose track of it.
>
> Tim
>
> ---------------------------- Original Message
> ---------------------------- Subject: English spelling From: Elan
> Ruusamäe <glen(a)pld-linux.org> Date: Sat, March 21, 2015 8:19
> am To: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf(a)pearsoncomputing.net>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
- -----
>
>
>
>
hi
i noticed several places of bad spelling, like "is" written as
"are":
http://git.trinitydesktop.org/cgit/tdelibs/tree/CMakeLists.txt
| tde_message_fatal( "ltdl.h are required, but not found on
your system" | )
should be written as
| tde_message_fatal( "ltdl.h is required, but not found on
your system" )
and so on for all items which are singular not plural...
and "informations"! info is uncountable, therefore it's always
"info" and "information"
http://scm.trinitydesktop.org/scm/git/tde-packaging "Branch
Informations " should be written as "Branch Information"
explanation:
http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=215770
Thank you for the warning! I am aware that I have used 'are × is'
several times (copy & paste the code from Serghei) and although I
wondered about it, I let it be so.
The question is, who will fix it?
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11 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-devel] [Fwd: English spelling]
On 23/03/2015 15:44, Timothy Pearson wrote:
All,
I received this message a couple days ago. Forwarding it to the list so
that we don't lose track of it.
Tim
---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: English spelling
From: Elan Ruusamäe <glen(a)pld-linux.org>
Date: Sat, March 21, 2015 8:19 am
To: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf(a)pearsoncomputing.net>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
hi
i noticed several places of bad spelling, like "is" written as
"are":
http://git.trinitydesktop.org/cgit/tdelibs/tree/CMakeLists.txt
| tde_message_fatal( "ltdl.h are required, but not found on your system" )
|
should be written as
| tde_message_fatal( "ltdl.h is required, but not found on your system" )
|
and so on for all items which are singular not plural...
and "informations"! info is uncountable, therefore it's always
"info"
and "information"
http://scm.trinitydesktop.org/scm/git/tde-packaging
"Branch Informations " should be written as "Branch Information"
explanation: http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=215770
Without wanting to teach anybody to suck eggs, as far as I can tell,
there are only 53 instances of the grammatically incorrect use of 'are
required' and these could easily be rectified with sed, awk or perl for
example.
This simple, if inelegant, combination of 'greps' lists them (whilst
ignoring the correct use of 'are required'), saving the output to file;
grep -r " are required, " * | grep -Fv "The fields " | grep -Fv
"If any
pending " | grep -Fv "they are required or not" | grep -Fv "features
are
required" | tee -a /home/list.txt
Similarly,
grep -rw Informations | grep -Ev "Informations ?? " | grep -Fv
"msgstr"
| grep -Ev "\[??\]" | tee -a /home/info.txt
produces a list of the incorrect usage of 'Informations'. There are a
couple of false positives in this list of 129, from non-english
translations I guess. This assumes that, in French and the other
translated languages, 'Informations' is actually correct, it may not be.
The above 'greps' were run on git from 'scm.trinitydesktop.org' which
may or may not be the correct place.
Obviously got too much time on my hands :)
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