[Lazarus] Error messages: cannot versus can't

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Michael Schnell schrieb:
> 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"

I don't like both :-(

In German documentation I'd avoid to address the reader, as far as 
possible. This also eliminates the problem of sex, in any language, 
where anti-discrimination and political correctness <shudder> requires 
the mention both males and females.

DoDi