From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
To: ac131313@cygnus.com
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [rfa/doc] Update ui-out; Was: [patch] Add col_name to ui_out_table_header()
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 01:31:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7263-Fri06Jul2001111839+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B45202E.9060106@cygnus.com>
> Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 22:19:26 -0400
> From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
>
> > English is not my first language (not even the second, actually), but
> > I know RMS always corrects my passive-tense sentences.
>
> So FSF documents should be written as second person present tense
> (correct name?).
I don't know if that's something in the GNU standards. I understand
that it's simply considered to be a good English style: it's better to
say "you do this and that" instead of "this and that is done".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-06 1:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-21 8:37 Andrew Cagney
2001-06-22 1:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-07-04 17:30 ` [rfa/doc] Update ui-out; Was: " Andrew Cagney
2001-07-04 23:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-07-05 19:40 ` Andrew Cagney
2001-07-06 1:31 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2001-07-06 15:20 ` Andrew Cagney
2001-07-06 22:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-07-07 9:16 ` Andrew Cagney
2001-07-07 9:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
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