change to declarative sentences. simplify links #9368

pull smatthewenglish wants to merge 2 commits into bitcoin:master from smatthewenglish:patch-13 changing 1 files +4 −4

smatthewenglish commented at 2:09 PM on December 16, 2016: contributor
The current version is lifted directly from bitcoin.org, i.e.
```
Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority or banks; 
managing transactions and the issuing of bitcoins is carried out collectively by the 
network.
```
So as an improvement to readability I propose to change the present perfect progressive such as managing and issuing to declarative sentences for the form management & issuance.

Also I chopped up the last sentence which was kind of long, into two shorter ones with the links.

change to declarative sentences

readability improvement- change to declarative sentences from present perfect progressive `management` instead of `managing`, `issuance` instead of `issuing`, etc.

32cfde1f15

useable to useful
just so
14b7a2e9b3

in README.md:None in 32cfde1f15 outdated

  16 | +out collectively by the network. Bitcoin Core is the name of the open source
  17 |  software which enables the use of this currency.
  18 |  
  19 | -For more information, as well as an immediately useable, binary version of
  20 | -the Bitcoin Core software, see https://bitcoin.org/en/download, or read the
  21 | +An immediately useable binary version of

paveljanik commented at 7:30 PM on December 16, 2016:

I'm not native language speaker, but the word 'useable' is strange.

smatthewenglish commented at 10:25 AM on December 17, 2016:

The text as is seems to be copied from bitcoin.org, for instance:

Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority or banks;
managing transactions and the issuing of bitcoins is carried out collectively by the 
network.

Yeah, I see what you mean- how about immediately useful?

fanquake added the label Docs and Output on Dec 17, 2016
fanquake commented at 10:26 AM on December 26, 2016: member

ACK adding the on line 14 and the link to bitcoin.org on 18, however not convinced the other wording changes are improvements.
MarcoFalke commented at 12:02 PM on January 4, 2017: member

@s-matthew-english Agree with @fanquake's feedback.
fanquake commented at 11:57 PM on January 20, 2017: member

Closing, as the link in the README is actually already clickable, if someone wants to fix the typo they can do.
fanquake closed this on Jan 20, 2017
smatthewenglish referenced this in commit e2b7556ccb on Jan 24, 2017
MarcoFalke locked this on Sep 8, 2021

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#9623 fixing typo in README