[MlMt] English grammar correction
Charlie Clark
charlie at begeistert.org
Thu Oct 8 07:55:59 EDT 2020
On 8 Oct 2020, at 13:06, Ken Pope wrote:
> A minority view: I like the informality. The adverb “always” is
> accepted as informal English.
Anyway is a contraction of any + way
Always is a contraction of all + ways
Personally, I think the result is that "anyways" grates. And, while I
don't really care, there is a rule of thumb that advises against such
things. Though in this case, the real issue is that it's a kind of
in-joke and software is an inappropriate place for such things, even all
the "spam" jokes in Python.
Charlie Clark
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