Re: [PATCH] doc: replace jargon word "impact" with "effect"/"affect"

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Hi Michal,

On Thu, 13 May 2021 at 08:47, Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> That would be the situation if you comented on the patch adding 'impact'
> before it was merged.

As a lurker (and there are a lot more of us than people who email the
list), this comes across to me as veering well into bad faith. Because
it wasn't picked up at the time it can never be improved? Code doesn't
work that way, neither should any other aspect of the project.

Non-native English speakers outnumber native ones about 3:1 [1], and
even within native English speaking countries there are variances in
common vocabulary. This sort of stuff trips up non-native speakers
though (and the lack of rules in English makes it difficult enough) -
why would we want to make understanding Git harder for people when
there's a simple improvement to be had?

Rob :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-speaking_world#cite_ref-Two_thousand_million_2-1




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