Bug #14305 Updated: type-o on web site

ID: 14305 Updated by: torben Reported By: php@dynamicink.com Status: Closed Bug Type: Documentation problem Operating System: Win2k PHP Version: 4.1.0 New Comment: To the original submitter: While help is very much appreciated, I'm quite certain that few people like to be attacked for the work which they do in their spare time for little or no hope of direct personal gain. If you do, however, intend to attack someone, it helps to get your information right. To wit: 'in concreto' is, in fact, perfectly acceptable English when used as a loan phrase from Latin. A small amount of research would have cleared this up for you. However, my intent is not to respond to the actual bug report; rather, the bit that upset me was the arrogant and unfounded attack on Sander. In an Open Source project such as PHP, there is a high probability that any given member of the team is not, in fact, a native English speaker. Deriding someone for this is not only pointless, but ridiculous--the fact that we have so many authors with other native tongues is the only thing which allows us to provide the manual in so many different languages. It is a strength, not a weakness. Finally, when you're going to attack someone based on their use of the English language, especially if you intend to insult them for having no writing skills, please ensure that: o you spell 'typo' correctly, o you spell 'sentence' correctly, o you learn that 'what-so-ever' is not a word, but 'whatsoever' is, and o your own sentences are not rife with grammatical mistakes (v. the original bug report). Yes, I do realize that by pointing out your mistakes I have guaranteed that my own message will contain some. That's karma for you. :) Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-12-06 15:20:22] philip@php.net Reworded this entity in language-snippets.ent a bit (it affects all such warnings). Please don't get so worked up next time, we appreciate your concerns. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-12-06 06:40:00] php@dynamicink.com Quote: "IMO it's good as it is right now." You must not speak English very well, that or you have no writing ability what-so-ever! Dude, concreto is not even a word in English and the sentance is a meaningless mess! If you are not going to do anything about the problem, at least don't answer ignorantly, sheesh. So much for open-source contributions... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-12-06 06:18:10] sander@php.net IMO it's good as it is right now. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-11-30 15:17:20] php@dynamicink.com http://download.php.net/manual/en/ref.overload.php has a type-o in the wanring, search for the word "concreto" I can't tell actually what the typist meant to say, but probably needs to replace: names, in concreto ANYTHING with: names and ANYTHING ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=14305&edit=1