[kde-community] KDE Manifesto Revision (round 2)

Kevin Ottens ervin at kde.org
Fri Nov 22 14:26:45 GMT 2013


On Friday 22 November 2013 10:09:34 Paul Gideon Dann wrote:
> On Friday 22 Nov 2013 10:27:09 Kevin Ottens wrote:
> > On Thursday 21 November 2013 21:24:21 Eike Hein wrote:
> > > +1 from me, too, though iirc native speakers requested 'writable by' :)
> > 
> > You mean it should say:
> > * All source materials are hosted on infrastructure available and writable
> > by all KDE contributor accounts
> > 
> > Is it correct? I guess the problem is you'd write "available to" and
> > "writable by" if I'm not mistaken... but both in the same sentence I
> > wonder
> > if one has precedence or something.
> 
> As a native UK English-speaker, I would write "... infrastructure available
> to and writable by ..."  Dropping one of the prepositions would, to me,
> look sloppy.

Thanks guys. I adjusted locally.

Regards.
-- 
Kévin Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net

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