[incubator-training] 08/21: Site checkin for project Training: Website

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commit 54ed1fd6aa0c3017221d69996e33849c3969ff8d
Author: jenkins <bu...@apache.org>
AuthorDate: Thu May 23 21:00:55 2019 +0000

    Site checkin for project Training: Website
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 index.html | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index 6671a9b..ff184b9 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@
                                                             <li class="toplevel"><a href="#_toc_apache_training_incubating1" title="Apache Training™ (Incubating)">Apache Training™ (Incubating)</a></li>
                         <li class="toplevel"><a href="#_toc_purpose1" title="Purpose">Purpose</a></li>
                         <li class="toplevel"><a href="#_toc_rationale1" title="Rationale">Rationale</a></li>
+                        <li class="toplevel"><a href="#_toc_a_short_word_about_linguistics1" title="A Short Word About Linguistics">A Short Word About Linguistics</a></li>
                         <li class="toplevel"><a href="#_toc_next_steps1" title="Next steps">Next steps</a></li>
                         <li class="toplevel"><a href="#_toc_getting_involved1" title="Getting involved">Getting involved</a></li>
           </ul>
@@ -169,6 +170,18 @@
    </div> 
   </div> 
   <div class="sect2"> 
+   <h3 id="_toc_a_short_word_about_linguistics1">A Short Word About Linguistics</h3> 
+   <div class="paragraph"> 
+    <p>The plural form of training was used frequently in the early stages of the project, which is strictly speaking not grammatically correct, as well as misleading from the perspective of this project. Training, being a gerund (verb used as noun) does not have a plural form, so should always be followed by a quantifiable noun like <em>sessions</em> or <em>slides</em>.</p> 
+   </div> 
+   <div class="paragraph"> 
+    <p>Additionally, the existence of this project is to a large extent based on the believe that a good training session consists of much more than just the material that is being shown, a distinction that is distracted from by the use of <em>training</em> as all-encompassing term.</p> 
+   </div> 
+   <div class="paragraph"> 
+    <p>While we will not tell anybody how to phrase this, as a project we will try to keep any official wording as concise as possible and stay away from the use of <em>training</em> or <em>trainings</em>.</p> 
+   </div> 
+  </div> 
+  <div class="sect2"> 
    <h3 id="_toc_next_steps1">Next steps</h3> 
    <div class="paragraph"> 
     <p>The initial goal for the first few weeks or months is to have discussions and agreements on various scoping and technical issues as well as integrating existing donated material.</p>