From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:54:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Edit user manual for grammar
Message-ID: <20070612175421.GA26767@fieldses.org>
In-Reply-To: <200706121643.19837.andyparkins@gmail.com>

On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 04:43:19PM +0100, Andy Parkins wrote:
>  - "last-resort" is two words, not a conjoined word, it doesn't require
>    the hyphen

Right, but when you've got a couple words functioning together to modify
a following noun, the hyphen's pretty standard: "rosy-fingered dawn".
Is this case an exception?  I suspect it's fine either way....

>  - "method of" is vulgar, "method for" is nicer

Reference?

>  - "recovery" becomes "recovering" from Steve Hoelzer's original version
>    of this patch
>  - "if you want" is nicer as "if you wish"
>  - "you may" should be "you can"; "you may" is "you have permission to"
>    rather than "you can"'s "it is possible to"

Fair enough, thanks.

What we really need is a complete recovery tutorial to stick in here
someplace.  (One day git complains about a corrupt pack file.  What do
you do?)  What's been stopping me from doing it, besides time, is no
idea how to come up with a good example to work with.

--b.