From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Language question
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:36:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y6yoxcsa.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8260CEF3-AEEF-4E9C-824D-2DBD184671BC@gmail.com> (Carsten Dominik's message of "Wed\, 10 Dec 2008 16\:18\:10 +0100")
Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
> this is a question to the native English speakers out there.
>
> If I write in the documentation
>
> "Cross referencing with unique IDs is hard to document"
>
> do I then write
>
> ids
> IDs
> id's
> or ID's
>
IDs or ids is fine. id's and ID's is possessive (the ID owns
something).
I'd probably use IDs in this case.
id is just short for identifier normally so
... unique identifiers is hard ...
would also be fine.
HTH,
Bernt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-10 15:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-10 15:18 Language question Carsten Dominik
2008-12-10 15:36 ` Bernt Hansen [this message]
2008-12-10 16:14 ` Ian Barton
2008-12-10 16:18 ` OT: " Carsten Dominik
2008-12-10 15:42 ` Matthew Lundin
2008-12-10 16:13 ` Womick, Don
2008-12-10 17:05 ` Peter Frings
2008-12-10 17:25 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-12-10 17:03 ` Samuel Wales
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