Re^2: Why Perl Announcements in Newest Nodes? (newses)

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Re^3: Why Perl Announcements in Newest Nodes? (newses) by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 12, 2006 at 15:44 UTC
News is already plural.	[reply]
Re^4: Why Perl Announcements in Newest Nodes? (knew) by tye (Sage) on Jul 12, 2006 at 16:29 UTC
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	[reply]
Re^4: Why Perl Announcements in Newest Nodes? (newses) by jdporter (Paladin) on Jul 12, 2006 at 15:46 UTC
News are already plural.	[reply]
Re^5: Why Perl Announcements in Newest Nodes? (news') by tye (Sage) on Jul 12, 2006 at 16:02 UTC
News are already plurals. - tye	[reply]
Re^5: Why Perl Announcements in Newest Nodes? (newses) by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 12, 2006 at 16:05 UTC
No, "is". "News" is plural but singular in construction	[reply]
Re^6: Why Perl Announcements in Newest Nodes? (newses) by jeffa (Bishop) on Jul 12, 2006 at 16:26 UTC
Re^3: Why Perl Announcements in Newest Nodes? (newses) by jdporter (Paladin) on Jul 12, 2006 at 16:19 UTC
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.	[reply]
Re^4: Why Perl Announcements in Newest Nodes? (an ounce, meant) by tye (Sage) on Jul 12, 2006 at 16:47 UTC
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	[reply]