Re: Grammar Police in OS X 10.11
Re: Grammar Police in OS X 10.11
- Subject: Re: Grammar Police in OS X 10.11
- From: Nigel Garvey <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 14:27:37 +0000
Chris Page wrote on Fri, 15 Jan 2016 04:11:14 -0800:
>> On Jan 14, 2016, at 3:31 AM, Nigel Garvey
><email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> ... Maybe the Grammar Police could be persuaded to
>> investigate a few things in Apple's scripting dictionaries. ;)
>
>Please do file bug reports about any issues with terminology or
>documentation found in a dictionary:
I'm actually not too bothered about grammatical errors in dictionary text, however wince-inducing some of them may be. I merely pointed out a few because someone's doctored the compiler to make a point about English grammar error which has never had any relevance in AppleScript. The compiler's always been able to equate both "it's" and "its" with "of it", the first because it's a possessive construction in AppleScript and the second because it's the correct English pronoun and also in the AppleScript language. I think it's nice that the compiler now auto-corrects the one to the other, but to insert a finger-wagging comment which causes the script to error and prevents its recompilation until removed seems a trifle petulant. By the way, "me's" still works and isn't auto-corrected to "my".
>> disk
>> Can the media be ejected (floppies, CD's, …?
>> Is the media a local volume …?
>
>What do you think they should say?
1. CDs. This is actually correct in the Finder's dictionary.
2. Is the medium [or some word other than a plural] a local volume?
>> StandardAdditions:
>> round
>> To always round .5 away from zero, ….
>>
>> Finder:
>> window
>> Is the window visible (always true for open Finder windows)?
>> Is the window collapsed
>
>What's wrong with these three?
1. Split infinitive — although in a court of grammar, one might successfully plea that "To"'s function here is adverbial, suggesting purpose, rather than infinitive.
2. Question mark in the wrong place.
3. No question mark at all.
NG
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