[Lazarus] Error messages: cannot versus can't

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Fri Oct 17 21:15:24 CEST 2014


In official messages the shortened form is wrong to be used.



On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd <
markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk> wrote:

> Péter Gábor wrote:
>
>  I agree with Hans-Peter! :)
>>
>> In Hungarian there are four(!) form of addressing the partner in a
>> communication:
>>
>
> Etc. Thanks for that, interesting. What is the position in Hungarian and
> other languages and their attendant cultures as far as the computer's
> assuming personhood is concerned? In English, there's now a tendency (which
> I think came in with Windows '95) for a computer to ask "Should I delete
> this file?" rather than the older "Delete this file (Y/N)?" and so on?
>
> (I'm reminded of the situation where some New York apartment blocks set
> their elevators to stop at every floor on Saturday, so that Jewish
> residents don't break the Sabbath by giving orders to a servant- even
> though that servant is a machine.)
>
> --
> Mark Morgan Lloyd
> markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
>
> [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]
>
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