[josm-dev] Localisation policy for quotes etc.

[Karl Guggisberg]

forgot to add: thanks to mjulius and others for cleaning up all these 
messages! It was indeed necessary and the result is a big improvent, 
even though I feel that the wording could be a little bit less formal in 
some cases.
-- Karl

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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