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Re: [PATCH v11 1/5] Implement alternative month names (bug 10871).
On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 10:07 AM, Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 09:32:16AM -0500, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>
> /* Long month names, in the grammatical form used when the month is a part
> of a complete date. */
Sounds good to me! And I think I understand where the confusion came
from now. In "the month forms part", "forms" was meant to be read as
a _verb_, with essentially the same meaning as your "the month is a
part", but because of the earlier "grammatical form", it sounded like
it was another use of the _noun_ "form", in the plural. I shall
remember that for future wordsmithing.
zw