[Lazarus] Error messages: cannot versus can't

Michael Schnell mschnell at lumino.de
Fri Oct 17 13:51:29 CEST 2014


On 10/17/2014 12:16 PM, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> Googling gives lot of pages saying that cannot is more formal than can't.
IMHO, Open Source projects are not supposed to be "formal" in that way.

I always find it repellent when some software in German uses the formal 
"Sie" instead of the familiar/colloquial "Du"

-Michael




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