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fix(engine.ts): Fix typo in subject prompt #73

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Hopefully you are nice and relaxed when writing your commit messages.

Hopefully you are nice and relaxed when writing your commit messages.
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LinusU commented Oct 19, 2018

Dupe of #72? 😄

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Infiltrator commented Oct 21, 2018

Ah, I see what you are trying to say now. The problem is that "short" is an adjective, which applies to "description", but "tense" is a noun, to which "imperative" applies as an adjective, so to make it grammatically correct, it should be "short, imperatively tensed description", with "tense" becoming a past participle (effectively making it an adjective) for "description", and "imperative" becoming an adverb describing "imperatively".

Having said that, "Write a short, imperatively tensed description of the change:" might sound funny to some people, so some other ways are:

  • "Write a short description of the change in the imperative tense:"
  • "Write a short description of the change (use the imperative tense):"
  • "Using the imperative tense, write a short description of the change:"

Or, if only one other person and I have found this a problem and everybody else understands what you are trying to say, then you can leave it be.

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LinusU commented Oct 24, 2018

I'd be happy with an update to the text, especially since this keeps coming up ☺️

ping @commitizen/admins

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Sure thing. Any preferences for phrasing? Personally, I like "Write a short, imperatively tensed description of the change", but I know that might sound arcane to some people. I like the second of the three alternatives, because the parentheses draw the reader's attention, and it is another imperative phrase, which will make people more likely to follow it.

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Oh, and as pointed out in #71, it should be "mood", not "tense", as grammatical tense is only about time. It kept feeling very strange to me every time that I read or wrote it but could not quite put my finger on it. I will change that at the same time in the PR.

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If you change this to mood I'll merge it.

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