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nix and drag are value-add

nix and drag are value-add

Posted Jan 18, 2010 16:12 UTC (Mon) by sdalley (subscriber, #18550)
In reply to: RawTherapee: the newest open source raw photo editor by nix
Parent article: RawTherapee: the newest open source raw photo editor

Well, I for one find both your *and* drag's posts among the most interesting and informative. You both display deep technical experience plus astute and enquiring minds plus a basically decent streak. Such comments have for me become one of the value adds of lwn.

Sure, drag's posts are somewhat discursive (why is that so bad?), and his speling and apostrophe's leave something to be desired (although they have improved).

(I used to be bothered exceedingly by wrong use of "it's", but now I've trained myself not to notice it where I can't do anything about it.)

A bit of tolerance can go a long way ...

It all adds to a pleasant, collegiate, mug-of-good-ale atmosphere ...

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nix and drag are value-add

Posted Jan 18, 2010 22:02 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

drag's posts are not bad at all, no. I shouldn't post with a searing
headache: it turns me into a grouch. (And when in that mood, drag's posts
are too long to read, as are all posts longer than about one line. Of
course I would never have the same failing. Oh no. Never.)

Unfortunately I have the proofreader gene, so any tiny typo stands out
like a neon sign :/

nix and drag are value-add

Posted Jan 19, 2010 4:48 UTC (Tue) by eli (guest, #11265) [Link] (1 responses)

My concern with the tolerance approach is that I have found these same errors occurring with greater frequency in my own writing. It appears that what I read affects what I write, and I read a lot of "loose" vs "lose", "it's" vs "its", "there" vs "their" vs "they're" errors on the 'net. So when I find someone contributing valuable insight marred by such errors, I try to politely and gently suggest greater care in avoiding said errors.

However, I did not intend to start a week-long digression on the topic of typos. ;)

nix and drag are value-add

Posted Jan 19, 2010 7:45 UTC (Tue) by hppnq (guest, #14462) [Link]

Never mind the typos! For a non-native English speaker, your use of "this" and "that" is intolerably inconsequent. It's torture. Why can't you say "thit" and "that" like normal people, or "this" and "thas" if you absolutely have to?!

Language is a drag. :-)


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