A request from your reviewer
Harald Alvestrand
harald at alvestrand.no
Wed Apr 18 09:06:04 CEST 2007
Marion Gunn wrote:
> On 16 Apr 2007, at 19:07, scríobh Randy Presuhn:
>>> "What language do you prefer?"
>>> "Which topic categories would you like to subscribe to?"
>>>
>>> Both should begin with "Which".
>>>
>> ...
>>
>> Why? In both contexts, "what" and "which"
>> sound equally good to me. (I'm a native speaker
>> of English.
>
> Harald (for whom my comment was meant) isn't.
>
> In any case, as you say below, your own dialect is far from being
> standard English!
>
> I'd have thought achieving internal consistency (within the same page
> on his website) might count for something with Harald. For that matter
> "would" would also be good. However, since a rough page of how-to
> instructions doesn't have to conform to any particular standard of
> English, I'm happy to rest the point.
Actually that page is part of the Mailman software package, so I've just
installed it, not written it. With other parties' software, I run a
policy of "don't patch unless you have to".
(I've also not upgraded the package for a few years, so the grammar
MIGHT have been corrected..)
Harald
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