Re: Vincent's article on our end users

[Jim Hodapp <james hodapp gmail com>]

Definitely Matthew is a welcome addition to the team. I like what  
he's done with the article too in editing. Do we have all of our  
article submissions for the month? Have you proposed who edits what  
yet? I can certainly propose them if you haven't yet.

Jim


On Jun 6, 2006, at 1:26 PM, Claus Schwarm wrote:

> 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