Re: [patch] doc/*.texi: Fix typos and follow spelling conventions.

[Ziemowit Laski <zlaski at apple dot com>]

On Tuesday, Dec 17, 2002, at 13:49 US/Pacific, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:

> Ziemowit Laski <zlaski@apple.com> writes:
>
> | On Tuesday, Dec 17, 2002, at 13:08 US/Pacific, Wolfgang Bangerth 
> wrote:
> |
> | >
> | > Matt Austern <austern@apple.com> writes:
> | > | For what it's worth, this sort of deliberate misspelling
> | > | (for documentation that's known to be incomplet and incorrekt)
> | >
> | > I find this offensive: writing incorrekt with a "k" is clearly 
> made to
> | > mock about Germans writing English. I request this to be changed 
> to the
> | > more neutral "incorreqt" ;-)
> | >
> | > (But then, maybe, arab speaking people will object).
> |
> | Wow, I didn't even consider the political correctness angle when 
> posting
> | my objection.  :-)  On a more serious note, the misspellings are not
> | only unprofessional,
>
> Do you mean that those on the ISO WG21 committee (especially the
> editor) were unprofessional?
> ;-)
I'm not sure which document you're referring to and so can't comment
specifically.  But yes, I would definitely consider standards documents
containing intentional malapropisms to be unprofessional. :-)

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