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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
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> 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".