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Re: RFS: swatch (updated package)



Hi,

[...]
Sandro Tosi wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 02:49, Ryan Niebur <ryanryan52@gmail.com> wrote:

>> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:04:52AM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote:
>>> - uncapitalize "Log" in short description and change ", &" to
>>> "&"/"and" only (thus becoming "highlighting & hooks)

>> what I was recently taught is that when your using the word "and"
>> either way is acceptable (I assumed that it applies to the symbol
>> too), and that's the way the old maintainer had it so I figure I could
>> just leave it.  but, I don't want to do the the research to figure out
>> if the current way is acceptable, and since imo both work, I'll just
>> change it. :)
> 
> Oh.. I always thought that the "and" concludes the list, not needing
> the comma :)

I have not followed the whole thread, but you may be interested in
taking a look at it:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-l10n-english/2008/09/msg00014.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma

:)

Regards,

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