GNU bug report logs - #79469
31.0.50; Ungrammatical sentence from describe-function

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Reported by: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>

Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 16:42:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 31.0.50

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Message #38 received at 79469 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers <at> fastmail.fm>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: stephen.berman <at> gmx.net, 79469 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#79469: 31.0.50; Ungrammatical sentence from describe-function
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2025 09:52:19 +0200

On Fri, Sep 19 2025, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers <at> fastmail.fm>
> You are saying that English pronunciation is determined by something
> beyond the spelling?

Yes, I am. And not just for English, for every language that has a written
form. The pronunciation is an inherent property of a word, its spelling is
not.

Just consider "row" (a line of objects) vs. "row" (noisy argument). Same
spelling, different pronunciations.

Anyway, this is off-topic here, obviously, so I'll shut up now. ;-)

-- 
Joost Kremers
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