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Re: [PATCH v11 1/5] Implement alternative month names (bug 10871).
On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 7:25 AM, Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 12:46:06PM +0100, Rafal Luzynski wrote:
>> 11.01.2018 03:16 "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 12:59:21AM +0100, Rafal Luzynski wrote:
>> > > + /* Long month names, in the grammatical form used when the month
>> > > + forms part of a complete date. */
>> >
>> > ... when month name is a part of ...?
>>
>> Does the question mark mean that you are not sure? Well, this comment
>> has been provided by Zack Weinberg who is a native English speaker.
>
> I read this as "month is a part of a part of a complete date" which
> is too complex unless your intention is to highlight that month name
> is a subpart.
I did not mean this sentence to be a definitive native-speaker
pronouncement on How To Say This In English. That _anyone_ finds it
confusing is enough reason to revise it.
But I'm having trouble revising it - I'm sure it should begin with
/* Long month names, in the grammatical form used when ...
but I don't know what to put after "when" anymore. Perhaps the
problem is that I don't speak any language that needs this feature!
How would *you* describe it?
zw