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bug#47416: Strange sentence in documentation of 'insert-file-contents'


From: Gregory Heytings
Subject: bug#47416: Strange sentence in documentation of 'insert-file-contents'
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2021 07:09:26 +0000


What about replacing "which see" with "quod vide"? It's not longer (eight letters and one space), and is easier to look up than both "which see" and "q.v.".

ISTR that past discussions concluded that q.v. would be even more cryptic. With "which see", at least native English speakers and those who are used to scientific literature would immediately understand what it means.


The only thing I see in that discussion (bug#28790) is: ""Quod vide" (qv) is arguably more conventional, but for those who haven't encountered the abbreviation or learned its meaning, it's a much tougher nut to crack." So it's about the abbreviation, not about the expression in full. I just tried, finding the meaning of "q.v." is difficult, but finding the meaning of "quod vide" is immediate.

I tried to find recent occurrences of "which see" in Google Books and Google Scholar, there are none. There are some occurrences of "on which see <reference>" or "for {examples, a discussion, an overview, an assessment, ...} of which see <reference>". It seems that all occurrences of "which see" are from the 19th century.





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