RE: directory search fails!

[David Ferguson]

FWIW, and yes I may be biased by familiarity, but I've believed that the 
current wording in the manual has been more helpful than any revision suggested 
to date by these recent threads. 

-daf


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> To: Eli Zaretskii
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> Subject: Re: directory search fails!
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> On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 09:59 -0400, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > From: Paul Smith <address@hidden>
> > > Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 09:02:11 -0400
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> > > 
> > > > Besides you wrote locate is a verb equivalent to "to find", why 
> > > > you did not use 'find' instead of 'locate'?
> > > 
> > > For the same reason I didn't use any of the other 
> synonyms of "find".
> > 
> > No, he has a point here.  Using different, though synonym, 
> words for 
> > the same entity runs the risk of confusing the reader.
> 
> This isn't an entity, it's an action.  Even so, if I felt 
> that it was some sort of term of art I would reuse it consistently.
> 
> But this is just a simple verb.
> 
> In the larger picture it seems to me that the manual would be 
> the poorer and much less pleasant to read without its current 
> style... I know I've had many people suggest they enjoyed 
> reading this manual precisely because it was _not_ clinical 
> and boring but rather had a sense of literacy.  I'm sure 
> that's not true of every part of the manual and much of it 
> (most likely the parts I wrote) could be improved.  But I'm 
> not comfortable with removing all the "interesting" text and 
> reducing it to "See Dick Run"-style content.
> 
> However, I do acknowledge that the "interesting" text could 
> make it more difficult to read for people not as familiar 
> with English.
> 
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