[josm-dev] Localisation policy for quotes etc.
Karl Guggisberg
karl.guggisberg at guggis.ch
Wed Jan 13 19:33:40 GMT 2010
Sure, but the latest commits fixing english messages are really exagerating
"Its download link is not known." instead of "isn't known" ? Hey, these
are just error messages, it's not the Queen addressing the nation.
--Karl
Am 13.01.2010 17:48, schrieb Frederik Ramm:
> Hi,
>
> Marc Schütz wrote:
>
>>> Well Marc Schütz is in theory completely wrong that don't and "do not"
>>> are "not freely interchangeable". "Don't" is a contraction of "do not"
>>> and means exactly the same thing by definition.
>>>
>> Then why is not this sentence right?
>>
> Can we simply agree that the apostroph'd forms are not used in formal
> English and move on? Ain't so hard ;-)
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
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