Word Choices, Spelling fixes. #16
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Pre-Moderate, is a better concept to make it understandable that content is not pre moderated or checked. However, it can be removed etc. changed supercede to supersede - takedown is not one word, rather two words, I added a hyphen. Cancelled or Canceled I guess this will turn into a debate, but from my research cancelled, overtook canceled in the 1980's, although many Americans, see Canceled as good enough.
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IMO, this change should be rejected. I don't find "pre-moderate" to be clearer than "pre-screen," non-hyphenated "takedown" is the accepted spelling in the legal community, and "supercede" and "cancelled" are both valid spellings, notwithstanding whether alternate spellings are more or less popular. |
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There are two usages of the word takedown in this line. If this were to go forward, spelling should probably be consistent.
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I agree that usage should be consistent for the word. Inconsistency looks unprofessional and in legal land could throw a user into a state of confusion, making them wonder whether the sleeping difference implies something slightly different. And until they figure it the difference or reconcile the problem, they may be deterred from using GitHub. Would you mind making a PR indoor just this one fix and cite simply that consistency would be less confusing to users? Unless of course I missed something in this thread. Just because they disagreed with other changes does not mean they disagreed with this particular change.
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FYI, "takedown" is not hyphenated. See, for example, Merriam-Webster. |
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@mhucka I was going by https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/take%20down this, and in many cases a hyphen is appropriate. @ajhyndman didn't even see that. Closing the PR, too much arguing about what is valid and isn't. Regardless of legal acceptability in the "legal community" this is not the legal community, this is a community of developers. Next, better word choices make a difference. Regardless of ones' opinion rather a community's. Closed. |
Pre-Moderate, is a better concept to make it understandable that content is not pre moderated or checked. However, it can be removed etc.
changed supercede to supersede -
takedown is not one word, rather two words, I added a hyphen.
Cancelled or Canceled I guess this will turn into a debate, but from my research cancelled, overtook canceled in the 1980's, although many Americans, see Canceled as good enough.