Implemented Advanced search page - should Any Forum be changed to All Forums?

[Paul B]

One for the English grammar experts.

On the advanced search page, should Any Forum be changed to All Forums?

If not, why not?

 

[Cezz]

One for the English grammar experts.

On the advanced search page, should Any Forum be changed to All Forums?

If not, why not?

I guess you are search for a post that appears in Any Forum... It is very unlikely that one post is going to be in All Forums... So in one way it is correct... Though you want to search in All forums not any forum... Hmmm...

 

[Paul B]

Not to mention that some of them are categories and not forums

I guess this is one of those times where either phrase works?

 

[Forsaken]

All forums sounds better anyways.

 

[Dismounted]

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/any?r=75&src=ref&ch=dic

any

–adjective
4. every; all

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/all?r=75&src=ref&ch=dic

all

–adjective
5. any; any whatever

They recursively define each other...

 

[Forsaken]

"Search any forums"
"Search all forums"

I still think 'all forums' sounds better.

 

[Wired]

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/any?r=75&src=ref&ch=dic

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/all?r=75&src=ref&ch=dic

They recursively define each other...

Infinite Loop - See Loop, Infinite
Loop, Infinite - See Infinite Loop

 

[Disjunto]

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/any?r=75&src=ref&ch=dic

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/all?r=75&src=ref&ch=dic

They recursively define each other...

personally, I've never trusted reference, they have meanings for a lot of non words in there :|

either way, both ways or saying this make sense, so no point changing it.

 

[Onimua]

Let's use "fora" then.

 

[Enigma]

Infinite Loop - See Loop, Infinite
Loop, Infinite - See Infinite Loop

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=recursion

 

[MordyT]

all forums...
Actually, imo, it should be "Search in all forums"...

 

[Dean]

My guess would be 'any forum' might sound better than having 'all forums' when the other content types (blogs, pages, etc) arrive.

Is it really that much of an issue?

 

[Nick]

IMO, "any forum" sounds like it'll search any random forum. "All forums" clearly implies that all forums (not just any forum) will be searched.

 

[Kier]

[Implemented] Any Forum -> All Forums

 

[Paul B]

Yay!

Another one of mine made it

Thanks guys