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[68.12.97.90]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id y18-20020a0568302a1200b0066f7e1188f0sm24281152otu.68.2023.01.22.12.01.51 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Sun, 22 Jan 2023 12:01:51 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2023 14:01:49 -0600 From: "G. Branden Robinson" To: Helge Kreutzmann Cc: alx.manpages@gmail.com, mario.blaettermann@gmail.com, linux-man@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Issue in man page wctype.3 Message-ID: <20230122200149.54quo22te2kckbee@illithid> References: <20230122193133.GA29288@Debian-50-lenny-64-minimal> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ne73msxxlwpduwvh" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20230122193133.GA29288@Debian-50-lenny-64-minimal> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org --ne73msxxlwpduwvh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Helge, At 2023-01-22T20:31:33+0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > Without further ado, the following was found: >=20 > Issue: all locales. =E2=86=92 all locales: >=20 > "The B() function returns a property, given by its name. The se= t of " > "valid names depends on the B category of the current locale, b= ut " > "the following names are valid in all locales." I disagree with this. The material that follows does not serve to end the sentence; it is a displayed list of items with no grammatical structure. The colon in English must be followed by an independent clause. (A list of comma-separated items, or a list of semicolon-separated items that contain commas is tolerated after a colon by some style guides.) It is distressingly common that, in particular, programmers use colons as a hatch for escaping the rules of English grammar, but it is _not_ correct usage, and any migration should be away from this practice, not toward it. 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