I'm sorry to bring forward the topic of grammar, which is usually very bad netiquette, and I hope nobody will feel offended, but... I cringe everytime I see "it's" used instead of "its" in the checkins or the wikis, which happens very often. Some folks are even using the incorrect form practically systematically :-) So could you be a bit more careful, especially all you native-English guys? All this with lots of :-) :-) Thanks, Florent -- Florent Guillaume, Nuxeo (Paris, France) +33 1 40 33 79 87 http://nuxeo.com mailto:fg@nuxeo.com
Florent Guillaume wrote:
I'm sorry to bring forward the topic of grammar, which is usually very bad netiquette, and I hope nobody will feel offended, but...
I cringe everytime I see "it's" used instead of "its" in the checkins or the wikis, which happens very often. Some folks are even using the incorrect form practically systematically :-)
So could you be a bit more careful, especially all you native-English guys?
All this with lots of :-) :-)
I understand the complaint, but I think it's harder than you might think. Not everyone is an English teacher. :-) For anyone looking for tips, here's a pretty comprehensive list of common mistakes. I've certainly made some of these mistakes: http://david.tribble.com/text/misspell.htm Personally, I like creative misspellings. :-) Shane
Could we add that to the Zope 3 styleguide? ;-) -- iuveno AG Joachim Werner _________________ Wittelsbacherstr. 23b 90475 Nürnberg joachim.werner@iuveno.de www.iuveno.de Tel.: +49 (0) 911/ 9 88 39 84
I'm sorry to bring forward the topic of grammar,
I, for one, think that proper grammar in checkins, source code and wikis is wonderful, and beneficial in the same way as syntax highlighting in editors. While reading Zope source in the past, I have, a couple of times, made diffs fixing niggly grammatical issues (I can be compulsive that way .. ) but have always refrained from submitting them as issues, because I was afraid they'd be considered noise. Is this a justified fear? -- Jean Jordaan http://www.upfrontsystems.co.za
I, for one, think that proper grammar in checkins, source code and wikis is wonderful, and beneficial in the same way as syntax highlighting in editors.
Agreed.
While reading Zope source in the past, I have, a couple of times, made diffs fixing niggly grammatical issues (I can be compulsive that way .. ) but have always refrained from submitting them as issues, because I was afraid they'd be considered noise. Is this a justified fear?
Indeed. If you have checkin perms, feel free to fix coding style and English grammar issues quietly. But trackers should be used for real coding issues. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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