Bug#547477: update-manager-gnome: "which does neither remove" - -EENGLISH
Steve Langasek
vorlon at debian.org
Mon Sep 21 03:35:02 UTC 2009
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 12:22:32AM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> Steve Langasek wrote:
> > Launching update-manager is sid gives me the following message:
> > Do you want to perform a safe-upgrade, which does neither remove packages
> > nor install new ones?
> > Aside from "safe-upgrade" being aptitude-specific jargon that doesn't belong
> > here, this is not proper English. It should be written:
> > Do you want to perform a safe-upgrade, which does not remove packages
> > or install new ones?
> Just curious, is this a matter of British/American English? I was taught in
> school the former option is fine IIRC.
No, it's not. There are two possible ways to construct this in English:
"[this] neither removes packages nor installs new ones"
or
"[this] does not remove packages [n]or install new ones"
The "[this] does neither remove [...]" is not something that occurs in
American or British English, TTBOMK.
Cheers,
--
Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world.
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slangasek at ubuntu.com vorlon at debian.org
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