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Re: [Curdle] Review of draft-kaduk-kitten-des-des-des-die-die-die-01

Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu> Sat, 27 May 2017 15:25 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Curdle] Review of draft-kaduk-kitten-des-des-des-die-die-die-01
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On 05/26/2017 12:49 AM, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
>> Section 5.2, "It is also best practice when [...], to" should have a
>> comma before "when".  Also, "it is also best practice" doesn't seem
>> right.
> 
> Sure, these commas need to come in pairs.  Is dropping to just "it
> is best practice" enough of an improvement to make you happy?
> (There's not really a preceeding instance that would make the "also"
> useful.)

How to use "best practice" grammatically seems to be a matter of some
debate; for me personally, it looks wrong without an article.  "It is
the best practice when [...]" would look okay to me.  As I noted before,
this is a non-blocking objection, and you should feel free to let the
RFC editor worry about this stuff.

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