This question serves as an example:
After several participants answered, the OP fundamentally changed the question, making all existing answers utterly irrelevant (i.e., none can even be adapted to the new needs in any useful way that I can discern.)
I deleted my original answer based on that, ...
@Pickett You around? Would you mind to explain how your bug-tool works? I mean, it's hosted at dropbox, but can you make that the users sees an webpage automatically created on dropbox?
@halirutan Unfortunately :( I was going to deploy it to Wolfram Cloud, but I didn't think it was worth it. I could still have cron job run the Mathematica script every now and then in the background, to update the HTML page.
Bug introduced in 10.2
System: Linux
Once updated to 10.2, my Alt+} and Alt+) do not return a pair of brackets but a single right one, as if Alt is not pressed. Alt+] still works.
@halirutan I recommend using Mr. Wizard's suggestion and appending any other information to the end of the sentence. "persisting" in his sentence could be used as a keyword to extract the sentence programmatically like "fixed" is now.
The best thing would be to wrap the meta sentence with f.e. <span data-version-introduced="10.1" data-version-persisting="10.2" data-operating-system="Linux">sentence for users</span> but I've been convinced that people won't use it consistently.
@halirutan I would call that already polite and certainly not harsh. You could go even more polite with something like "would you please consider re-reading..."
@halirutan If you want to make a "harsh" point, it is sometimes less confrontational to frame it in terms of your "feelings." E.g., "I feel this is important to my work and find it increasingly dissatisfying to work within the limitations this issue with X imposes on me."
@MichaelE2 Yes, sounds right and I would read it like that.
@MichaelE2 I'm reading about 70% of my books in English (when they are written by some English author, I quite like to read the original thing). I believe I have a pretty good feeling most of the time. What I do miss is to speak to someone who is a native speaker. In science, almost everyone is not a native speaker here (at least it seems so) which makes the whole situation worse.
You here accents all the day. I have a buddy when I play battlefield who is from UK.. but I don't consider the war-chat a good practice :-)
@MichaelE2 I didn't wanted to come as racist, because I'm not, but Indian and Chinese accents are probably the worst. I can even imitate them beside having a German accent myself
@MichaelE2 I mean, the situation is pretty strange because I'm basically reading and working in English the whole day. All publications are English, all programming related stuff is English. Therefore, I push myself to be really good at the language itself. On the other hand, English is so simple and gray compared to German. I don't want to know how Geothes Faust sounds in English.
@halirutan The basic sound components of language vary greatly around the world. Forming and hearing the sounds are learned in our first couple of years (as infants); after that it takes a lot of work. Chinese and European languages, for example, are far apart in their sound elements.
@halirutan I think the British Museum has recordings of different dialects around England. I can understand almost none of what they say. The differences in vocabulary were surprising to me. But that's going away with TV etc and greater mobility.
I took a linguistics course that explained the variety of sounds of languages all over the world (and how to denote them, which I've forgotten).
@MichaelE2 yeah, I know most of the stuff from Comedian shows and movies that I watch only in German when my wife is around and forces me to. There are a great variety of different accents. I learned a lot from George Carlin, Ron White, I just love Kathleen Madigan and Bill Bailey.
(Btw, Bill Bailey played in Black Books which is hilarious after some episodes)
@halirutan We have no TV except a few broadcast programs. My daughter once she could walk, wouldn't let us watch. So we got rid of cable. We hardly ever turn the set on. She's 13 now and still has no interest in TV.
We'll watch some things on the internet. When school's in session, it seems we have little time to sit and watch for a couple of hours. We spend half of summer with my in-laws, hiking, swimming, playing music. Little time to watch then, too.
I don't really speak German. I taught myself to read it for my Ph.D. Now and then I might read short things, mainly poems, in German. Short, so I have time to look up words I don't know.
@halirutan Yeah, I'm not sure either. I hear about "critically acclaimed" shows from time to time. They seem rare. And on cable. The "reality" shows really turned me off. I suppose they're still around.
@MichaelE2 Reality shows were the one that gave me the rest too. Sometimes, when I'm with friends, they even make it an evening-event to watch the worst of these shows.. where you can barely look and feel ashamed all the time (it's called "Fremdschämen" here).
@halirutan I never saw enough of them to really know how they worked. They seemed to have little to do with reality, except that the people really degraded themselves and really felt unenviable and sometimes ugly emotions.