# [PATCH] docs: use "currently" for the present time 5 messages from 2020-01-20 to 2020-01-21. Participants: brian m. carlson, Robert P. J. Day, Junio C Hamano, Philip Oakley. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/52671 ## brian m. carlson, 2020-01-20 21:21 Subject: [PATCH] docs: use "currently" for the present time Message-ID: <20200120212156.4109999-1-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20200120212156.4109999-1-sandals%40crustytoothpaste.net ``` In many languages, the adverb with the root "actual" means "at the present time." However, this usage is considered dated or even archaic in English, and for referring to events occurring at the present time, we usually prefer "currently" or "presently". "Actually" is commonly used in modern English only for the meaning of "in fact" or to express a contrast with what is expected. Since the documentation refers to the available options at the present time (that is, at the time of writing) instead of drawing a contrast, let's switch to "currently," which both is commonly used and sounds less formal than "presently." Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson --- This is a minor issue I noticed one day and thought I'd send a patch for. I should point out that English differs from virtually every other language I can find that uses something like "actual", so this is an easy mistake to make. Documentation/config/http.txt | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/config/http.txt b/Documentation/config/http.txt index 5a32f5b0a5..8471b39f0f 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/http.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/http.txt @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ http.saveCookies:: http.version:: Use the specified HTTP protocol version when communicating with a server. If you want to force the default. The available and default version depend - on libcurl. Actually the possible values of + on libcurl. Currently the possible values of this option are: - HTTP/2 @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ http.sslVersion:: particular configuration of the crypto library in use. Internally this sets the 'CURLOPT_SSL_VERSION' option; see the libcurl documentation for more details on the format of this option and - for the ssl version supported. Actually the possible values of + for the ssl version supported. Currently the possible values of this option are: - sslv2 ``` ## brian m. carlson, 2020-01-20 21:53 Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: use "currently" for the present time Message-ID: <20200120215326.GE6570@camp.crustytoothpaste.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20200120215326.GE6570%40camp.crustytoothpaste.net In-Reply-To: ``` On 2020-01-20 at 21:33:58, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jan 2020, brian m. carlson wrote: > > > In many languages, the adverb with the root "actual" means "at the > > present time." However, this usage is considered dated or even archaic > > in English, and for referring to events occurring at the present time, > > we usually prefer "currently" or "presently". "Actually" is commonly > > used in modern English only for the meaning of "in fact" or to express a > > contrast with what is expected. > > ... snip ... > > as someone who is constantly being sheldon cooper-level pedantic, i > totally agree with this sentiment. As I mentioned, this is very minor and I can't imagine a native English speaker being confused by it, nor can I imagine a speaker of most European languages finding it confusing. It just stood out to me since I know Spanish and French and I thought, "Oh, someone was thinking in another language here." I've actually been sitting on this patch for a while because I thought it might be too minor to send, but I finally decided to do it as I was sending some other doc patches. -- brian m. carlson: Houston, Texas, US OpenPGP: https://keybase.io/bk2204 ``` ## Robert P. J. Day, 2020-01-20 21:33 Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: use "currently" for the present time Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/alpine.LFD.2.21.2001201633240.8488%40localhost.localdomain In-Reply-To: <20200120212156.4109999-1-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> ``` On Mon, 20 Jan 2020, brian m. carlson wrote: > In many languages, the adverb with the root "actual" means "at the > present time." However, this usage is considered dated or even archaic > in English, and for referring to events occurring at the present time, > we usually prefer "currently" or "presently". "Actually" is commonly > used in modern English only for the meaning of "in fact" or to express a > contrast with what is expected. ... snip ... as someone who is constantly being sheldon cooper-level pedantic, i totally agree with this sentiment. rday ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2020-01-21 18:42 Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: use "currently" for the present time Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/xmqqo8uwabxf.fsf%40gitster-ct.c.googlers.com In-Reply-To: <20200120215326.GE6570@camp.crustytoothpaste.net> ``` "brian m. carlson" writes: > As I mentioned, this is very minor and I can't imagine a native English > speaker being confused by it, nor can I imagine a speaker of most > European languages finding it confusing. It just stood out to me since > I know Spanish and French and I thought, "Oh, someone was thinking in > another language here." > > I've actually been sitting on this patch for a while because I thought > it might be too minor to send, but I finally decided to do it as I was > sending some other doc patches. Thanks. The use in the sslVersion seems to have come from 01861cb7 ("http: add support for specifying the SSL version", 2015-08-14) and the other one seems to have just copied it at d73019fe ("http: add support selecting http version", 2018-11-08). Will queue. ``` ## Philip Oakley, 2020-01-21 19:10 Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: use "currently" for the present time Message-ID: <59c8a840-ea78-02b3-edbf-c1c9b413393e@iee.email> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/59c8a840-ea78-02b3-edbf-c1c9b413393e%40iee.email In-Reply-To: ``` On 20/01/2020 21:33, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jan 2020, brian m. carlson wrote: > >> In many languages, the adverb with the root "actual" means "at the >> present time." However, this usage is considered dated or even archaic >> in English, and for referring to events occurring at the present time, >> we usually prefer "currently" or "presently". "Actually" is commonly >> used in modern English only for the meaning of "in fact" or to express a >> contrast with what is expected. > ... snip ... > > as someone who is constantly being sheldon cooper-level pedantic, i > totally agree with this sentiment. > > rday As long as we don't use "presently" which is seen as a bit horrid here in UK (like 'momentarily' - as in 'I'll be with you..') ;-) Philip. ```