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[Remko van der Vossen <wich AT stack.nl>]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 08:36:11AM -0400, flux wrote:
> Alexander Tsamutali (astsmtl AT gmail.com) wrote [08.07.01 08:14]:
> > В Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:59:27 +0200
> > Ladislav Hagara <ladislav.hagara AT unob.cz> пишет:
> > 
> > > 
> > > > -           SHORT="a pythonic, object-oriented web development
> > > > framework"
> > > > +           SHORT="pythonic, object-oriented web development
> > > > framework"
> > > >
> > > > +2008-07-01 Vlad Glagolev <stealth AT sourcemage.org>
> > > > +       * DETAILS: updated 3rd branch to 3.1.0, woohoo! Fixed short
> > > > desc
> > > 
> > > Sorry for nitpicking, how did you fix short desc?
> > > I know my czenglish is horrible but I remember that English uses
> > > articles. Imho we should also use them.
> > 
> > I'm used to write SHORT without indefinite articles too. Do we have a
> > standard for SHORT? If no, we can't blame anyone for this. :)
> 
> In my opinion, the problem is not that there should not be an indefinite
> article at all, but that the original was in the wrong place. It should
> read:
> 
> "pythonic, an object-oriented web development framework"

pythonic is not the name of the spell, it's just an adjective like
object-oriented in which case "a pythonic, object-oriented web
development framework" is perfectly acceptable, other options would be
to leave out the article as done by Vlad, "cherrypy is a pytho..." or
"cherrypy, a pytho...." Honestly though there's nothing really wrong
with any of these four versions, except maybe that pythonic could be
considered an unexisting word, but hey words have got to start
somewhere.

Remko van der Vossen.

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