GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 781097
"While IRC being a real-time discussion, people tend to not reply immediately, so be patient."
Last modified: 2017-04-11 15:27:02 UTC
The "GNOME Help," "Get more help," "IRC" node of the documentation has a paragraph reading: "While IRC being a real-time discussion, people tend to not reply immediately, so be patient." This wording is slightly unnatural. Changing "While" to "With" seems more readable: "With IRC being a real-time discussion, people tend to not reply immediately, so be patient."
I think it should rather be "While IRC is a real-time discussion medium, people tend to not reply immediately, so be patient." This is supposed to show that despite the real time nature of IRC, one won’t always get an instantaneous response.
(In reply to Alexandre Franke from comment #1) > I think it should rather be "While IRC is a real-time discussion medium, > people tend to not reply immediately, so be patient." > > This is supposed to show that despite the real time nature of IRC, one won’t > always get an instantaneous response. That works too. Or: "Since IRC is a real-time discussion medium, people tend to not reply immediately, so be patient."
Both of your suggestions have a contradiction. They both state that IRC is real time and that there are delays *as a consequence*. The goal of the original sentence was precisely to warn that *even though* it is real time, one should expect delays.
(In reply to Alexandre Franke from comment #3) > Both of your suggestions have a contradiction. They both state that IRC is > real time and that there are delays *as a consequence*. The goal of the > original sentence was precisely to warn that *even though* it is real time, > one should expect delays. Right. Good point. What you suggested works and is an improvement over the current wording. So going with your suggestion makes sense: "While IRC is a real-time discussion medium, people tend to not reply immediately, so be patient."
Created attachment 349684 [details] [review] help-irc: fix wording Fixes https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781097
Review of attachment 349684 [details] [review]: LGTM, thanks!
Attachment 349684 [details] pushed as 5153b79 - help-irc: fix wording