[Gllug] LinuxDoc / DocBook Documentation Writting

[John G Walker]

On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:32:56 +0100 Tom Schutzer-Weissmann
<trmsw at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> Surely "She's going and catching the plane" doesn't mean "she's going
> to catch the plane"; the first sentence means she's doing it now and
> the second means she'll be doing it in the future.

Yes. I'm not sure what the point is.

But how about "She's gone and caught the plane", which is an emphatic
form of "She's caught the plane".

> 
> In Nix's example the speaker's left out "to go" - "She's going to go
> to London and talk on global warming."
> 

Why shouldn't the speaker leave out "to go"? Is verbosity a virtue? In
my book, less verbose is better.

Which is all more evidence that grammar checking should be left to
native speakers rather than software,

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 All the best,
 John
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