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faq: observe English conventions #158

Closed elstoc closed 3 years ago

elstoc commented 3 years ago

let battle commence...

elstoc commented 3 years ago

I'll admit I was expecting a bit of debate before this one was merged. Some (odd) people care very much about defying the conventions of the English language.

Of course now we've got to alter the rest of the website (and the user manual) to conform.

jade-nl commented 3 years ago

I still think that darktable should be darktable, even at the beginning of a sentence. Am I odd.... Probably :-))

Have fun changing all the documentation, website(s) and what have you >:-)

elstoc commented 3 years ago

Documentation should be easy. I've only started sentences with "darktable" where I couldn't find any other way to do it, to avoid this problem. I can just about live with it at the start of a paragraph but straight after a full stop it just looks like a mistake.

patdavid commented 3 years ago

I'll admit I was expecting a bit of debate before this one was merged.

Yeah, no need to bikeshed this, imo. Excelsior!

elstoc commented 3 years ago

The debate is happening on IRC now though.

elstoc commented 3 years ago

As an alternative, we could say "As such you should avoid starting a sentence with the word darktable". Of course people will, whatever we say, and we should try to avoid "correcting" them.