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RE: directory search fails!
From: |
David Ferguson |
Subject: |
RE: directory search fails! |
Date: |
Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:14:01 -0700 |
FWIW, and yes I may be biased by familiarity, but I've believed that the
current wording in the manual has been more helpful than any revision suggested
to date by these recent threads.
-daf
> -----Original Message-----
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> Of Paul Smith
> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 6:42 AM
> To: Eli Zaretskii
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>
> On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 09:59 -0400, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > From: Paul Smith <address@hidden>
> > > Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 09:02:11 -0400
> > > Cc: address@hidden
> > > Reply-To: address@hidden
> > >
> > > > Besides you wrote locate is a verb equivalent to "to find", why
> > > > you did not use 'find' instead of 'locate'?
> > >
> > > For the same reason I didn't use any of the other
> synonyms of "find".
> >
> > No, he has a point here. Using different, though synonym,
> words for
> > the same entity runs the risk of confusing the reader.
>
> This isn't an entity, it's an action. Even so, if I felt
> that it was some sort of term of art I would reuse it consistently.
>
> But this is just a simple verb.
>
> In the larger picture it seems to me that the manual would be
> the poorer and much less pleasant to read without its current
> style... I know I've had many people suggest they enjoyed
> reading this manual precisely because it was _not_ clinical
> and boring but rather had a sense of literacy. I'm sure
> that's not true of every part of the manual and much of it
> (most likely the parts I wrote) could be improved. But I'm
> not comfortable with removing all the "interesting" text and
> reducing it to "See Dick Run"-style content.
>
> However, I do acknowledge that the "interesting" text could
> make it more difficult to read for people not as familiar
> with English.
>
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- Re: directory search fails!, (continued)
- Re: directory search fails!, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/09/25
- Re: directory search fails!, ali hagigat, 2010/09/25
- Re: directory search fails!, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/09/25
- Re: directory search fails!, ali hagigat, 2010/09/26
- Re: directory search fails!, Paul Smith, 2010/09/26
- Re: directory search fails!, ali hagigat, 2010/09/27
- Re: directory search fails!, Paul Smith, 2010/09/27
- Re: directory search fails!, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/09/27
- Re: directory search fails!, Paul Smith, 2010/09/28
- Re: directory search fails!, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/09/28
- RE: directory search fails!,
David Ferguson <=
- Re: directory search fails!, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/09/28
- RE: directory search fails!, David Ferguson, 2010/09/28
- RE: directory search fails!, Hambridge, Philip J (ODP), 2010/09/30
- Re: directory search fails!, Paul Smith, 2010/09/26
- Re: directory search fails!, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/09/26
- Re: directory search fails!, Paul Smith, 2010/09/26
- Re: directory search fails!, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/09/26
- Re: directory search fails!, Paul Smith, 2010/09/22
- Re: directory search fails!, ali hagigat, 2010/09/22
- Re: directory search fails!, Paul Smith, 2010/09/22