[PATCH 1/1] NEWS: Avoid the words "nominative" and "genitive".

Carlos O'Donell carlos@redhat.com
Fri Jul 27 11:50:00 GMT 2018


On 07/27/2018 05:47 AM, Rafal Luzynski wrote:
> Glibc supports two grammatical forms of month names and we keep adding
> the locale data which actually use this feature but those two forms are
> not necessarily nominative and genitive.  It is better to use a more
> generic term.
> ---
>  NEWS | 7 ++++---
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

OK for 2.28/master.

Please commit.

Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>

> 
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index b08fee6..c946ba2 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -48,13 +48,14 @@ Major new features:
>    - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
>      fMxdivfNx functions.
>  
> -* Nominative and genitive month names are now supported for the following
> +* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
>    languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
>    Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon.  The following languages now
> -  support abbreviated alternative month names: Catalan, Greek, and Kashubian.
> +  support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
> +  and Kashubian.
>  
>  * Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
> -  include the support of the nominative and genitive month names.
> +  include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
>  
>  * Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
>    patches.
> 



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