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bug#35287: dired-do-copy English beef-up


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: bug#35287: dired-do-copy English beef-up
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 23:35:50 +0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

> Copy: 11 files
>
> Actually "Copied 11 files" is proper English and doesn't leave us
> somewhat worrying...

Other messages that use the same operation name:

  "Copy: 2 of 3 files skipped"

  "Copy failed for 2 of 3 files"

Shouldn't the latter be "Copying failed"?
So for every operation three verb forms are needed:
"Copy", "Copying", "Copied", correct?





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