Nick Coghlan added the comment:

Sorry, dropping the "was" was a typo (I should have copied & pasted it instead 
of rewriting).

>From the point of view of the error message, the reason I changed my 
>suggestion was because I liked your idea of optimising it for the "only using 
>await" case and trusting that the folks delving into the lower level plumbing 
>of calling methods manually can figure it out. Anything that mentions await 
>*at all* will be wrong in some cases, since what we're actually reporting is 
>an attempt to resume (by some means) a coroutine that was previously 
>terminated (by some means).

That is, "Cannot resume terminated coroutine" is always accurate, but relies on 
the reader knowing that "await" both resumes a coroutine and waits for it to 
terminate.

"Coroutine was previously awaited on" may be wrong about how the coroutine was 
originally terminated, but at least hints that the error may be related to 
awaiting the coroutine.

"Cannot resume previously awaited coroutine" would be inaccurate under the same 
circumstances.

"Cannot await previously awaited coroutine" would only be entirely accurate for 
"double await" errors, but doesn't rely on the reader making any assumptions at 
all in that case.

(The bulk of the problem here is that my brain is happy to accept "awaited" as 
a novel adjective modifying "coroutine", but balks at "awaited" as a verb or 
"awaited on" as a verb phrase. I'm extrapolating from that to guess that other 
folks would find the verb form similarly jarring)

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