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bug#28790: Replaced "which see" with "q.v.".
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#28790: Replaced "which see" with "q.v.". |
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Mon, 24 Jun 2019 17:39:33 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> "This is about foobar, which see" is a customary usage in English.
> Perhaps not used so much nowadays as 50 years ago. People who don't
> know it will have a good chance of figuring it out from the meanings
> of the two words."
>
> As for "q.v.", that is an erudite abbreviation that most people won't know,
> and won't have any way to figure out.
>
> Thus, this change would make the text harder to understand. Please
> don't make this change.
It seems like most agreed, so I'm closing this bug report.
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