Re: [Bug-wget] [PATCH] Some simple documentation corrections

[Jochen Roderburg]

Zitat von Micah Cowan <address@hidden>:

> Tony Lewis wrote:
> > Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
> >
> > > >  waiting interval specified by this function is influenced by
> > > > address@hidden, which see.
> > > > address@hidden
> > > "Which see" is no typo, it suggests to the user to also look at the
> > > documentation of "--random-wait" command-line option.
> >
> > It may not have been a typo, but it doesn't parse in English.
>
> Sure it does. It's grammatically correct English, and I've seen it used
> in various places (though somewhat rarely).
>
> Which doesn't mean it's not awkward and confusing (obviously, it has
> confused more than one native English speaker). Probably better without it.

And it actually looks *very* strange and not understandable for a  
non-english person (like me) who had never seen that phrase before in  
written texts in the described meaning.   ;-)

In german one would say "siehe dort", which literally translated to  
english is "see there" or "look there", but I have some feeling that  
these are now really wrong english phrases in this context.

Reminds me of a previous discussion about the wget message "Server  
file no newer than local file" where the english folks said it is  
correct english and all the others thought "not newer" would be more  
correct.  ;-)

Best regards,
J. Roderburg