| 1 |
Ciaran McCreesh posted <20060105151138.5baf5700@××××××××.home>, excerpted |
| 2 |
below, on Thu, 05 Jan 2006 15:11:38 +0000: |
| 3 |
|
| 4 |
> News Item Quality Control |
| 5 |
> ------------------------- |
| 6 |
> |
| 7 |
[snip] |
| 8 |
> However, for the sake of clarity, professionalism and avoiding making us |
| 9 |
> look like prats, it is important that any language problems be corrected |
| 10 |
> before inflicting a news item upon end users. |
| 11 |
|
| 12 |
As the GLEP has matured, it has gotten far more professional and polished |
| 13 |
looking. That's a good thing! =8^) However, now that it's looking so |
| 14 |
professional and polished, the "prats" phrase is a bit jarring. What |
| 15 |
about making that sentence read... |
| 16 |
|
| 17 |
> However, for the sake of clarity and professionalism, it is important |
| 18 |
> that any language problems be corrected before inflicting a news item |
| 19 |
> upon end users. |
| 20 |
|
| 21 |
-- |
| 22 |
Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
| 23 |
"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
| 24 |
and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
| 25 |
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
| 26 |
|
| 27 |
|
| 28 |
-- |
| 29 |
gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list |
Archives