[vlc-devel] [PATCH] Qt: grammar fixes

[Rob Jonson]

On 13 July 2013 20:38, Edward Wang <edward.c.wang at compdigitec.com> wrote:

> -        "<p>In order to protect your privacy, the <i>VLC media player</i>
> "
> +        "<p>In order to protect your privacy, <i>VLC media player</i> "
>          "does <b>not</b> collect personal data or transmit them, "
>          "not even in anonymized form, to anyone."
>          "</p>\n"
>

wading into controversial territory here, but in general usage, data is no
longer a plural.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/jul/16/data-plural-singular

it derives from a latin plural, but we don't speak latin any more, and even
grammar pedants like me find that referring to data as a plural
seems awkward and contrived.

so, I would suggest

> In order to protect your privacy, VLC media player does not collect
personal data or transmit it (even in anonymised form), to anyone.

if that's too hard for the old-school latin-educated amongst you, then you
could fudge it with:

> In order to protect your privacy, VLC media player does not collect or
transmit your personal data to anyone  (not even in anonymised form).

you will of course note that I prefer the English anonymised over the
American anonymized!
















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