- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 11:15:35 -0400
- To: Giovanni Campagna <scampa.giovanni@gmail.com>
- Cc: Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>, www-archive@w3.org, fantasai@inkedblade.net
On Monday 2009-06-08 16:37 +0200, Giovanni Campagna wrote: > 2009/6/8 L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>: > > On Monday 2009-06-08 16:28 +0200, Giovanni Campagna wrote: > >> That diff file includes changing "paddings" into "puddings" (the first > >> difference) > > > > Oops, thanks. I meant to change both occurrences of "paddings" to > > "padding". Here's a corrected diff. > > Actually, why do you want that? > It is not correct to say "padding are" (singular noun, plural verb), > so either "padding is" or "paddings are". Paddings are two, top and > bottom, so IMO "paddings" was correct. I think the correct plural of "padding" (at least in the normal English sense) is "padding" (since it's a mass noun, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_noun ), and that's what we use elsewhere in the spec. Thus the following two are equivalent "left padding and right padding are" "left and right padding are" -David -- L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ Mozilla Corporation http://www.mozilla.com/
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