Re: Vincent's article on our end users

[Claus Schwarm <c schwarm gmx net>]

Hi, Matthew!

On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 16:58:33 +0100
Matthew Walton <matthew alledora co uk> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Sorry this is in a new thread. I just subscribed to the list after
> Thomas Wood pointed out that you might like more editors. I'm a fairly
> hideous grammar pedant (although I would not claim to be the best user
> of the English language by a long way), so I tend to enjoy trying to
> make things better. 
> 

A "fairly hideous grammar pedant" is always good to have in a journal.
Are you indeed willing to spend some time helping us to fix the errors
our English, and non-English speaking writers make? That would be
very welcome.


> And so I've taken a look at Vincent's article and the result is
> attached. I've tried to use slightly more formal language without losing
> too much of the article's character, and tidied up various parts where I
> felt readability was suffering from unusual construction or in a few
> cases rewrote something that just didn't make any sense to me. A couple
> of sentences also got removed entirely, as they seemed superfluous and
> were also proving difficult to bring into shape as they didn't fit with
> the surrounding text.
> 

This is easier to read, even for me. Rock! :-)

You may like to consider to split the sentens starting with "An usual
GNOME contributor will use mailing lists, IRC and ..." into two,
thought. Just for perfection.

> This is based on Claus' revisions, by the way.
> 

You mean Lucas' revisions. ;-)

> Hopefully nobody will think I've made it worse.
> 

I wouldn't say so. Jimmy?


Cheers,
Claus