On 06/10/2012 12:56 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Can anyone think of a common way to use "all these" that is
> not in error?
Yes, lots:
Tired with all these, for restful death I cry
-- Shakespeare, Sonnet 66, line 1
But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in their heart.
-- Luke 2:19 (King James Version)
The complaint ... about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses,
modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that
all these _objets modernes_, while adequate and amusing in themselves,
tend to make the people who use them look dated.
-- E.B. White, "Fitting In", The New Yorker, 1934-06-09
I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this
big field of rye and all.
-- J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, 1951
All these examples are perfectly good English,
and there's no need to remove all those instances
of "all these" from gnulib.
