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Re: [PATCH v3] manual: fix up grammar
> On Sunday 28 October 2012 21:32:39 Roland McGrath wrote:
> > > But each message (unless equal to another one) must have its own unique
> > > -pair of set and message number.
> > > +pair of set and message numbers.
> >
> > This change is wrong.
>
> why ? messages are identified with a set number, and with a message
> number. that's two numbers. hence, you have a pair of set and message
> numbers.
Oh, I was reading it as (unique (pair of (set) and (message number))).
You're saying the actual intent is (unique (pair of (set number) and
(message number))).
> in some cases, i didn't think the sentence were salvageable (from a grammar
> perspective), so i just redid them.
When the original sentence was ungrammatical, that makes sense. I'm pretty
sure I saw some cases where the original sentence was grammatically correct.