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[simple-ruby] Avoid 1st person (editorial) #12

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bert-github opened this issue Apr 2, 2020 · 1 comment · Fixed by w3c/jlreq#201
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[simple-ruby] Avoid 1st person (editorial) #12

bert-github opened this issue Apr 2, 2020 · 1 comment · Fixed by w3c/jlreq#201

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@bert-github
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In section 2.1, suddenly a sentence starts with "I". The status section did say the documents was subjective, but mentioned "authors and contributors". Maybe the "I" should be a "we", or possibly the document should start using "I" already in the introduction.

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frivoal commented Apr 3, 2020

This is a translation artifact. The original sentence did not use any pronoun at all, as is often the case in Japanese. Sentences that have a pronoun in English often elide it in Japanese, so when translating from Japanese, it's not always obvious which pronoun to use, or whether an impersonal phrasing should be used. In this case, the latter would have been preferable.

frivoal referenced this issue in frivoal/jlreq Apr 3, 2020
@r12a r12a transferred this issue from w3c/jlreq Apr 3, 2020
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