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Re: The Second Great Spelling Check (Re: Package descriptions and making them better)



Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:

> On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 11:49:28AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> > David N. Welton wrote:
> > > in the middle of a Makefile, indicating where to add commands
> > > necessary to configure the package?
> > 
> > Did you see my reply to your bug report?
 
> I agree. Both are grammatically correct, but the emphasis in each of
> the two forms is completely different. As I read it, the suggested
> change not only creates the wrong emphasis but also scans more
> awkwardly.

The first one doesn't sound correct to me - 'here' usually comes at
the end of a phrase.  But if reasonable people differ, let's just
close this bug and forget it, it's not worth the time.

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