From: "Thomas Adam" <thomas.adam22@gmail.com>
To: "Ralf Wildenhues" <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] manual: Fix or remove em dashes.
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 22:41:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18071eea0710091441n717c0a99p58a9b585d15cc778@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071009210530.GH31317@ins.uni-bonn.de>
Hello --
On 09/10/2007, Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> wrote:
> em dashes were used inconsistently in the manual.
> This changes them to the way they are used in US English.
I find this particular patch to be rather odd; there is nothing
invalid in the way the em-dashes are used. Why is it US English is
somehow de facto over, say, proper English? :)
-- Thomas Adam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-09 21:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-09 20:57 [PATCH 0/6] Some small documentation fixes Ralf Wildenhues
2007-10-09 21:00 ` [PATCH 1/6] Fix some typos, punctuation, missing words, minor markup Ralf Wildenhues
2007-10-09 21:01 ` [PATCH 2/6] Fix wording in push definition Ralf Wildenhues
2007-10-09 21:02 ` [PATCH 3/6] manual: Fix example finding commits referencing given content Ralf Wildenhues
2007-10-09 21:03 ` [PATCH 4/6] manual: add some markup Ralf Wildenhues
2007-10-09 21:03 ` [PATCH 5/6] manual: use 'URL' instead of 'url' Ralf Wildenhues
2007-10-09 21:05 ` [PATCH 0/6] manual: Fix or remove em dashes Ralf Wildenhues
2007-10-09 21:41 ` Thomas Adam [this message]
2007-10-09 21:52 ` Ralf Wildenhues
2007-10-09 22:02 ` Thomas Adam
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