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bug#28790: [PATCH] Replaced "which see" with "q.v.".
From: |
Alan Third |
Subject: |
bug#28790: [PATCH] Replaced "which see" with "q.v.". |
Date: |
Mon, 16 Oct 2017 22:47:44 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.9.0 (2017-09-02) |
On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 06:03:31PM -0700, John Williams wrote:
> I still maintain that "which see" is an anachronism that the vast
> majority of English speakers will find meaningless at best, and
> confusing at worst, but since RMS already said he disagrees, I don't
> see much point in pressing the issue further without collecting some
> hard data on English usage, and that seems like it would be an
> excessively quixotic pursuit.
I had to use Google to find out what it meant when I was reading the
Emacs manual. I don’t believe I’ve ever seen it used anywhere else.
For me, the only advantage of replacing it with ‘q.v.’ would have been
that I’d immediately know that I didn’t know what it meant, rather
than assuming the writer made a grammatical mistake.
--
Alan Third
- bug#28790: [PATCH] Replaced "which see" with "q.v."., (continued)
- bug#28790: [PATCH] Replaced "which see" with "q.v."., Nick Helm, 2017/10/11
- bug#28790: [PATCH] Replaced "which see" with "q.v."., Eli Zaretskii, 2017/10/12
- bug#28790: [PATCH] Replaced "which see" with "q.v."., Glenn Morris, 2017/10/14
- bug#28790: [PATCH] Replaced "which see" with "q.v."., João Távora, 2017/10/14
- bug#28790: [PATCH] Replaced "which see" with "q.v."., John Williams, 2017/10/14
- bug#28790: [PATCH] Replaced "which see" with "q.v."., Drew Adams, 2017/10/15
- bug#28790: [PATCH] Replaced "which see" with "q.v."., Richard Stallman, 2017/10/15
- bug#28790: [PATCH] Replaced "which see" with "q.v.".,
Alan Third <=
- bug#28790: [PATCH] Replaced "which see" with "q.v."., Eli Zaretskii, 2017/10/14
bug#28790: Replaced "which see" with "q.v."., Richard Stallman, 2017/10/12