818350 - Typo during firefox OS tutorial: "See your accounts credit, phone and data use"

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::First Time Experience, defect)

Description

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

The first-run tutorial has a screen saying
> See your accounts credit, phone and data
>                use.

Aside from the fact that my settings screen just shows data usage (not credit or phone use, whatever those are), there's a typo there:  "accounts" wants to be "account's" (with an apostrophe)

This is with the first "beta" dogfood build. (unagi_beta_2012-12-03.zip)

Comment 1

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

(In reply to Daniel Holbert [:dholbert] from comment #0)
> Aside from the fact that my settings screen just shows data usage

er, I meant "status-bar dropdown screen" (not "settings screen")

Comment 2

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Attachment: screenshot

Comment 3

[Brendan Eich [:brendan]]

We should take this, it's super-low risk.

Are we minusing all polish bugs now?

/be

Comment 4

[(no longer active)]

Isn't 's supposed to be used for entities which can possess things?  </nitpick>

Comment 5

[Milos Dinic [:Milos]]

(In reply to Ehsan Akhgari [:ehsan] from comment #4)
> Isn't 's supposed to be used for entities which can possess things? 
> </nitpick>

Yep, but that's exactly what we have: credit that belongs to an account, or multiple accounts, so account's(singular) or accounts'(plural).

Comment 6

[(no longer active)]

(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to Ehsan Akhgari [:ehsan] from comment #4)
> > Isn't 's supposed to be used for entities which can possess things? 
> > </nitpick>
> 
> Yep, but that's exactly what we have: credit that belongs to an account, or
> multiple accounts, so account's(singular) or accounts'(plural).

Well that's the point.  Accounts can't possess things, AIUI.  But then again I'm not a native speaker.

Comment 7

[Milos Dinic [:Milos]]

(In reply to Ehsan Akhgari [:ehsan] from comment #6)
> (In reply to comment #5)
> > (In reply to Ehsan Akhgari [:ehsan] from comment #4)
> > > Isn't 's supposed to be used for entities which can possess things? 
> > > </nitpick>
> > 
> > Yep, but that's exactly what we have: credit that belongs to an account, or
> > multiple accounts, so account's(singular) or accounts'(plural).
> 
> Well that's the point.  Accounts can't possess things, AIUI.  But then again
> I'm not a native speaker.

It definitely can be used like that. http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/possessives.htm

Comment 8

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

While we are editing that string, I think "data usage" is better than "data use". "Your data usage" is a figure in MB. "Your data use" is what you do with the data when you get it.

Gerv

Comment 9

[Fernando Campo (:fcampo)]

This bug will probably get outdated when #818588 lands (fewer steps, different texts), so if you have any concerns about those new texts, please add the info in bug 818588 comments, to have all the discussions in just one bug :)

Comment 10

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Thanks for the heads-up -- I added a note in bug 818588 comment 5, linking to this bug for the original typo here.

Comment 11

[Fernando Campo (:fcampo)]

Solved together with bug 820150 https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/commit/d85fdfc8cb9d70b264321e633a047f66dcbbcea2