Re: gettext: commands/*

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:17:22AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 01:16:04PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' 
>> Serbinenko wrote:
>>> === modified file 'commands/halt.c'
>>> --- commands/halt.c 2009-12-03 23:07:29 +0000
>>> +++ commands/halt.c 2009-12-21 00:10:33 +0000
>>> @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ static grub_command_t cmd;
>>>  GRUB_MOD_INIT(halt)
>>>  {
>>>    cmd = grub_register_command ("halt", grub_cmd_halt,
>>> -                          0, "halts the computer.  This command does not"
>>> +                          0, "Halts the computer.  This command does not"
>>>                            " work on all firmware.");
>>> I would rather say "On *every* firmware."
>>
>> That doesn't sound grammatical to this native speaker, because you use
>> "every" with singular count nouns and "firmware" isn't pluralisable -
>> I'm not sure of its exact grammatical category but it feels like a mass
>> noun to me. Besides, "does not work on all" feels more idiomatically
>> correct than "does not work on every".
>>
>> "All firmware" is definitely better, but you could use "all firmware
>> implementations" if you wanted to be crystal-clear.
>
> I believe it would be also correct to say
>
>  This command does not work on some firmware implementations.

Or maybe we could speak a language a bit closer to the user and say that
this command doesn't work on all computers? :-)

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Robert Millan

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