On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 10:35:22AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> writes: > > Andrew McMillan <and...@morphoss.com> writes: > >> On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 18:18 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> >>> as a non-native speaker, I have difficulties with the use of 'may' in > >>> your patch: if fields may be unique, they also may be not unique, so > >>> what is the message in this sentence? It does not give me the > >>> impression that the goal is to discourage the use of the same field > >>> name twice in the same paragraph. > >>> How about “A paragraph should not contain data fields having the same > >>> name.” > >> In this sense 'may' should be read as 'must', however I think that if > >> it causes readability issues for non-native english speakers then the > >> word 'must' should actually be used... > >> "Each paragraph must contain at most one instance of a particular > >> field name." > >> Is that clearer? > > Yes, indeed, that's what I meant; I'll go with that (assuming that > > doesn't have a different clarity problem that I'm missing). > Hm, actually, better (slightly less awkward, I think): > A paragraph must not contain more than one instance of a particular > field name. Seconded. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
