[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [PATCH] spelling fixes (PR#1526)

[Thanasis Kinias <tkinias@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

scripsit Reinier Post:
> On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 07:39:16AM -0700, Thanasis Kinias wrote:
> > scripsit Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > >   Please consider applying, this is the one we're using in Conectiva
> > > Linux.
> > > 
> > > - Arnaldo
> > 
> > If you're patching, I would recommend following the usage of the Chicago
> > Manual of Style, which is 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, etc.  This isn't the most
> > common in popular writing, but (for American English at least) is the
> > preferred style for formal writing.  
> 
> Interesting.  I don't think I've ever seen this in print.
> If I would understand it at all, I'd take it as a private
> invention by the author.  My vote against this.

It's obviously a matter of taste in the end, but I can assure you that
it's not a private invention by any single author.  It's the style
required by the University of Chicago Press for its publications, and is
the required style for, e.g., doctoral dissertations in the more
conservative humanities fields at many universities.

(I maybe should have warned that I was an English teacher in a previous
career <grin>.)

> > (The Chicago Manual of Style is the `bible' for questions like this in
> > American English.  I don't know if there's an equivalent reference book
> > for Commonwealth English.)
> 
> Google finds very little "3d" for "third", but it does occur.

Formal writing is a very, very small proportion of the content on the
Web.

-- 
Thanasis Kinias
Web Developer, Information Technology
Graduate Student, Department of History
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A.

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