Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2023 18:23:36 +0000 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: Moin Rahman <bofh@freebsd.org> Cc: doc-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-doc-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: git: 71f0bf9790 - main - .vale/styles: Merge spelling-exceptions Message-ID: <E56951C1-D9E4-4E96-BF8F-A47844D87A07@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <CF7222A4-0C15-4902-82BA-05AF5E8960C7@freebsd.org> References: <CF7222A4-0C15-4902-82BA-05AF5E8960C7@freebsd.org>
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> On 23 Dec 2023, at 11:33, Moin Rahman <bofh@freebsd.org> wrote: >=20 >=20 >>> On Dec 23, 2023, at 12:07 PM, Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> wrote: >>>=20 >>>=20 >>>> On 22 Dec 2023, at 14:59, Muhammad Moinur Rahman <bofh@freebsd.org> wro= te: >>>=20 >>> +descendents >>=20 >> Although I have not checked for the context in which it is used, this wor= d is almost certainly misspelled as =E2=80=9Cdescendent=E2=80=9D is an adjec= tive. The noun =E2=80=9Cdescendants=E2=80=9D is most likely the intended use= . > No it's not. The actual word is descendant which can be used as both Noun a= nd Adjective and descendents is the plural of that. That is not correct. Pluralising a noun by adding an =E2=80=9Cs=E2=80=9D do= es not frequently - or ever, as far as I can think - change the spelling of t= he rest of a word. =E2=80=9CDescendent=E2=80=9D, as I said, is an adjective and the plural of =E2= =80=9Cdescendant=E2=80=9D is =E2=80=9Cdescendants=E2=80=9D. >> I am also struggling to ascertain anything in the way of a style guide fo= r vale files. Sometimes words with two letters in common are collapsed into= a single expression, and sometimes they are not. Is there a style guide? > I try to concise this file as much as possible. If you mean writing style f= iles check https://vale.sh and if you mean what rules are used in the FreeBS= D repo check the FDP Primer https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?i= d=3D275224. >=20 > All the style resides in https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/fdp-primer/writ= ing-style/#writing-style-linting-vale I mean the style guide for the vale file itself. There is nothing like that= at the link above, so I conclude there is none. Could there be please? Ceri
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