On 2015 m. sausio 28 d. 08:10:38 EET, jonathon <[email protected]> wrote: > >On 28/01/15 05:18, Rimas Kudelis wrote: > >> I really don't see a revision of all existing strings as a >requirement to start reviewing newly added ones. > >At some point in time that review has to be done. To minimize the >overall workload, it is easier, and simpler, to do it before reviewing >newly added strings, than afterwards. (For starters, doing it >afterwards >means having to review those newly added strings at least twice, and >maybe thrice.)
You're right, but if the choice is between no reviews at all and reviews of new strings only, which would you choose? It's go for the latter. >>Especially if you are a native English speaker and have a style guide >at hand. > >Just as the English language has never met it word that it has not >adopted as it's own, so it has never met a grammatical construct that >it >has not adapted and mutilated. One direct consequence of both those >facets of acquisition, is that it is incredibly difficult to write a >sentence in English that is grammatically incoherent, but extremely >easy >to write a sentence that grammatically means the opposite of what was >intended. > >IOW, that certain string might be "clear, concise and >grammatically, syntactically and typographically correct", but mean >something other than intended, because the vocabulary is usually used >to >mean something else elsewhere. Let's add "semantically correct" or "contextually correct" to my list of requirements then. :-) >BTW, when you say "style guide", which specific one do you mean? The one you're looking for, assuming it exists. If not, or could be a combination of Gnome HIG and any American English style guide we (the LibO community) would deem acceptable and meeting our needs (e.g. The Chicago Manual of Style). -- Rimas -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/projects/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
