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----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Paul Smith > Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 6:42 AM > To: Eli Zaretskii > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: directory search fails! > > On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 09:59 -0400, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > From: Paul Smith <[email protected]> > > > Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 09:02:11 -0400 > > > Cc: [email protected] > > > Reply-To: [email protected] > > > > > > > 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. > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------- > Paul D. Smith <[email protected]> Find some GNU make tips at: > http://www.gnu.org http://make.mad-scientist.net > "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a > professional." --Mad Scientist > > > _______________________________________________ > Help-make mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make > _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
