- From: Alice via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2021 22:20:28 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
I can only second everything @rachelandrew said, and agree with @plinss that we should be aiming for readability. The advice on contractions is based on advice from professional copy-editors that they improve readability, e.g. https://stroppyeditor.wordpress.com/2015/10/12/contractions-which-are-common-and-which-arent/ (which is also linked in the style guide), and backed up by anecdotal reports from speakers of English as a second language. It would be good to find analogous evidence for or against non-standard spelling; the fact that @SebastianZ filed this issue is a strong start in the "against" direction. My personal opinion is that a technical spec isn't the place to try and move the needle on not-yet-standardard spellings like those mentioned above: specs are tough enough to read already, without added speed bumps from non-standard spelling. As @plinss noted, we don't have any advice for spec language currently, and creating a style guide for specs would be a big project. However, honestly I think we probably only need to convince one or possibly two people to change practices in this specific instance. -- GitHub Notification of comment by alice Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/5850#issuecomment-757554061 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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