I think both versions are good English - if anything the previous one may be somewhat more common.

Bump.

No bump needed since both versions are good English. If you think the alternative version warrants a separate entry, feel free to contribute it. If not, your comments are duly noted here (as they should be).

Generally sentences shouldn't be changed from 'good English' to 'good English'. There's enough work to be done changing things from 'bad English' to 'good English'.

My point exactly.

> My point exactly.

Er, but that's exactly what you did 15 days ago. Changed something that didn't need changing.

No, I changed something I felt needed changing. You noted that "colour" (well, "colour") was acceptable.

Had this sentence not been an orphan, I probably would have just left a comment asking if it shouldn't rather be "complexion". Had you then replied to say that no change was necessary, I would have been happy to leave it at that, given that the alternative had been noted in a comment.

I had no intent to change a perfectly good sentence to another perfectly good one just because I felt like it. I mistook a phrase I wasn't familiar with for one of the poor translations from Japanese and, acting on good faith, changed it.

I'm not sure as to your motives, but your last few comments I've seen from you tend to the change-it-to-my-preference which, to tell you the truth, is starting to annoy me. As you've noted, there's plenty of more constructive work to be done.

It's usually not so much 'change it to my preference' as 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it'.

There are a few dozen changes made to English and Japanese sentence every week and I check all of them. Obviously the ones I'm happy with I don't comment on. The ones I do comment on are a small minority, and if I make a comment and don't get a reply I put out a reminder the next week.

I'm very happy to have people contribute to Tatoeba, but I have a lot of years of work invested in the Japanese/English pairs worked on for WWWJDIC and I do not want to encourage changes that don't improve them.