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Bug 650237 - Grammar error: amount -> number
Grammar error: amount -> number
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gparted
Classification: Other
Component: application
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gparted maintainers alias
gparted maintainers alias
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-05-15 15:16 UTC by Francois Botha
Modified: 2011-07-18 19:19 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Francois Botha 2011-05-15 15:16:56 UTC 
One can count operations, hence, in gparted.master.pot:
"Depending on the amount and type of operations this might take a long time."
should be
"Depending on the number and type of operations this might take a long time."
Comment 1 Curtis Gedak 2011-05-18 16:18:11 UTC 
Thank you Francois for suggesting this improvement in wording.

Is there a reference that you can point me to learn more about this proposed change in wording.  For instance why "number" is preferred instead of "amount"?
Comment 2 Francois Botha 2011-05-18 16:20:35 UTC 
Just Google number vs amount. Here's one of the good hits: http://grammar.about.com/od/words/a/amount.htm
Comment 3 Curtis Gedak 2011-05-18 16:23:03 UTC 
Thank you for the link.  I will plan to include this suggestion in a future release of GParted, probably 0.9.0 or so.
Comment 4 Curtis Gedak 2011-05-24 17:58:55 UTC 
This improvement in English grammar has been committed to the GNOME git repository for inclusion in the next release of GParted.

The relevant git commit can be viewed at the following link:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gparted/commit/?id=f188974a6c75f5b604957e2db5545f60f7096a48
Comment 5 Curtis Gedak 2011-07-18 19:19:01 UTC 
The fix for this bug was included in the GParted 0.9.0 release on July 18, 2011.