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31.0.50; Ungrammatical sentence from describe-function

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Message #29 received at 79469 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
Cc: joostkremers <at> fastmail.fm, 79469 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#79469: 31.0.50; Ungrammatical sentence from describe-function
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2025 09:00:32 +0300

> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
> Cc: Stephen Berman via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
>  text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>,  Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
>   79469 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2025 01:01:29 +0200
> 
> On Fri, 19 Sep 2025 00:46:53 +0200 Joost Kremers <joostkremers <at> fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 
> > Potentially problematic, because not every word that starts with "u" gets
> > "an". And sometimes words starting with "h" also need "an".
> 
> Yes, that's why I wrote in my OP: "While all three are ad hoc fixes, I
> think the undoubted complexity of a more general fix is unjustified
> here, because (unless I've overlooked something) `interpreted-function'
> is the only function type symbol returned by `cl-type-of' in
> `help-fns-function-description-header' that results in the problem
> (since it begins with a vowel)."

If we don't care about being wrong in some cases, then why fix this to
begin with?

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