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Strange phrase on download page: "with other users"
There are two sentences on the download page which read very oddly to me:
1) Extend your Apache OpenOffice functionality with a large and
growing library of extensions and dictionaries with other users.
2) Extend your Apache OpenOffice creativity with a large and growing
library of templates with other users.
I don't understand the phrase "with other users".
Well, obviously I understand the words, but they don't make sense to
me in that context.
Can anyone enlighten me what the phrase is intended to mean here?
If the phrase were dropped entirely, the sentences would make sense to me.
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Re: Strange phrase on download page: "with other users"
Posted by sebb <se...@gmail.com>.
On 19 August 2013 11:42, Rory O'Farrell <of...@iol.ie> wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:16:34 +0100
> sebb <se...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> There are two sentences on the download page which read very oddly to me:
>>
>> 1) Extend your Apache OpenOffice functionality with a large and
>> growing library of extensions and dictionaries with other users.
>>
>> 2) Extend your Apache OpenOffice creativity with a large and growing
>> library of templates with other users.
>>
>> I don't understand the phrase "with other users".
>> Well, obviously I understand the words, but they don't make sense to
>> me in that context.
>>
>> Can anyone enlighten me what the phrase is intended to mean here?
>>
>> If the phrase were dropped entirely, the sentences would make sense to me.
>>
> In both cases, if the "with" is replaced by "from" the phrases make sense.
Thanks, now fixed!
>
> --
> Rory O'Farrell <of...@iol.ie>
>
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Re: Strange phrase on download page: "with other users"
Posted by sebb <se...@gmail.com>.
On 19 August 2013 19:27, Marcus (OOo) <ma...@wtnet.de> wrote:
> Am 08/19/2013 12:42 PM, schrieb Rory O'Farrell:
>
>> On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:16:34 +0100
>> sebb<se...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> There are two sentences on the download page which read very oddly to me:
>>>
>>> 1) Extend your Apache OpenOffice functionality with a large and
>>> growing library of extensions and dictionaries with other users.
>>>
>>> 2) Extend your Apache OpenOffice creativity with a large and growing
>>> library of templates with other users.
>>>
>>> I don't understand the phrase "with other users".
>>> Well, obviously I understand the words, but they don't make sense to
>>> me in that context.
>>>
>>> Can anyone enlighten me what the phrase is intended to mean here?
>
>
> I idea behind this wording is to express the bi-directional way:
>
> a) You can download extensions/templates from other users and use them in
> your OpenOffice.
Yes, it now says that explicitly.
> b) But you can also create own extensions/templates and upload them to share
> with other users.
I think that is implicit in the above.
But others may think otherwise?
> Of course I don't know if this is good English language. However, it seems
> you have already changed the wording. ;-) I hope it's still fitting,
> otherwise you can change it.
> Marcus
>
>
>
>
>>> If the phrase were dropped entirely, the sentences would make sense to
>>> me.
>>>
>> In both cases, if the "with" is replaced by "from" the phrases make sense.
>
>
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Re: Strange phrase on download page: "with other users"
Posted by "Marcus (OOo)" <ma...@wtnet.de>.
Am 08/19/2013 12:42 PM, schrieb Rory O'Farrell:
> On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:16:34 +0100
> sebb<se...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> There are two sentences on the download page which read very oddly to me:
>>
>> 1) Extend your Apache OpenOffice functionality with a large and
>> growing library of extensions and dictionaries with other users.
>>
>> 2) Extend your Apache OpenOffice creativity with a large and growing
>> library of templates with other users.
>>
>> I don't understand the phrase "with other users".
>> Well, obviously I understand the words, but they don't make sense to
>> me in that context.
>>
>> Can anyone enlighten me what the phrase is intended to mean here?
I idea behind this wording is to express the bi-directional way:
a) You can download extensions/templates from other users and use them
in your OpenOffice.
b) But you can also create own extensions/templates and upload them to
share with other users.
Of course I don't know if this is good English language. However, it
seems you have already changed the wording. ;-) I hope it's still
fitting, otherwise you can change it.
Marcus
>> If the phrase were dropped entirely, the sentences would make sense to me.
>>
> In both cases, if the "with" is replaced by "from" the phrases make sense.
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Re: Strange phrase on download page: "with other users"
Posted by Rory O'Farrell <of...@iol.ie>.
On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:16:34 +0100
sebb <se...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There are two sentences on the download page which read very oddly to me:
>
> 1) Extend your Apache OpenOffice functionality with a large and
> growing library of extensions and dictionaries with other users.
>
> 2) Extend your Apache OpenOffice creativity with a large and growing
> library of templates with other users.
>
> I don't understand the phrase "with other users".
> Well, obviously I understand the words, but they don't make sense to
> me in that context.
>
> Can anyone enlighten me what the phrase is intended to mean here?
>
> If the phrase were dropped entirely, the sentences would make sense to me.
>
In both cases, if the "with" is replaced by "from" the phrases make sense.
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Rory O'Farrell <of...@iol.ie>
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