in reply to Why Perl Announcements in Newest Nodes?

I think this is a valid question. The name of the site section is Perl News. Why would the relevant, er, section of Newest Nodes use any other name?

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Re^2: Why Perl Announcements in Newest Nodes?
by VSarkiss (Monsignor) on Jul 12, 2006 at 21:22 UTC

      Oh god, dont open that can of worms. Unless you want to reorganize all the titlebar links to accomodate the much longer title, which you probably dont want to do. Its a pain. I know. I've done it before. I dont want to do it again. :-)

      Lets just face it, the requirements for these things vary, and finding section names that work cleanly in every context where they could be used is going to be hard.

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      $world=~s/war/peace/g

Re^2: Why Perl Announcements in Newest Nodes? (newses)
by tye (Sage) on Jul 12, 2006 at 15:42 UTC

    Because the headings are plural and "Perl Newses" sounds stupid.

    - tye        

      News is already plural.

        I also vaguely recall some of the labels once being "New ...s" (and "New Perl Newses" is even stupidder (and "New Perl News" is still stupid (and even just "Perl News" is ambiguous in plurality (which makes it less clear (though the s/News/Announcement(s)/ also makes it less clear (but then we've just got a trade-off))))))).

        - tye        

        News are already plural.

      the headings are plural

      Not all. "Discussion" is singular (as are the relatively unimportant "sitedoclet" and "Craft").

      In any case, I don't see a compelling reason for these headings to be plural.

      We're building the house of the future together.

        The headings denote that what is listed beneath them is the latest entries in the section. So the headings describe the entries in a section and not the sections. You don't say "I added a news to the Perl News section". We could just make all (well, most) of the headings of the form "Newest [Section Name] Nodes".

        Meh. Whatever. Let's schedule a conference to properly define and implement the optimal Newest Nodes heading construction methodology and just leave things as-is for now? (:

        I figured trying to use gooder English would appeal to you (making the headings more accurate), rather than trying to avoid any English transformations.

        But whatever y'all decide is fine with me. Really.

        - tye