Opened 11 years ago

Closed 11 years ago

#21575 closed Uncategorized (wontfix)

grammatical error in documentation

Reported by: anonymous Owned by: nobody
Component: Documentation Version: 1.6
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

You may have noticed the additional data (form-TOTAL_FORMS, form-INITIAL_FORMS and form-MAX_NUM_FORMS) that was required in the formset’s data above.

should be

You may have noticed the additional data that were required in the formset’s data above.

in https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/forms/formsets/

Change History (1)

comment:1 by Tim Graham, 11 years ago

Resolution: wontfix
Status: newclosed

Thank-you for the report. This could go either way, but I feel the current usage is ok. Quote that summarizes how I feel:

It's like agenda, a Latin plural that is now almost universally used as a singular. Technically the singular is datum/agendum, but we feel it sounds increasingly hyper-correct, old-fashioned and pompous to say "the data are".

If someone else feels strongly about it, I won't object to changing it.

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