From: Mike Woolley <mike@ariel.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Documentation for expiry target in group customize
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 15:09:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <usmsthyh8.fsf@ariel.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3fzotb41f.fsf@defun.localdomain> (Jesper Harder's message of "Tue, 08 Apr 2003 13:51:40 +0200")
Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:
> kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>
>> I think it's encyclopedia-speak or dictionary-speak which are wont to
>> use somewhat strange constructions in the interest of brevity.
>
> It's also often written as »q.v.« (quod vide):
>
> "Overrides `nnmail-expiry-target' (q.v.)"
"which see" makes no sense in English :-)
English Dictionaries /et al/ use "q.v.", as Jesper indicates...
Cheers,
Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-08 14:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-07 10:59 Niklas Morberg
2003-04-07 14:27 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-08 7:12 ` Niklas Morberg
2003-04-08 10:11 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-08 11:51 ` Jesper Harder
2003-04-08 14:09 ` Mike Woolley [this message]
2003-04-09 16:55 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-04-12 21:42 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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