On 17/10/2014 12:16, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 11:58:21 +0200 > Reinier Olislagers <[email protected]> wrote: > Googling gives lot of pages saying that cannot is more formal than > can't. And MS Word prefers cannot over can not. > > This means: It depends on the target audience of your application.
Yes, formal versus informal is part of it. Another part is comprehension, e.g. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb226825%28v=vs.85%29.aspx "Avoid contractions in technical messages. They can slow down comprehension." -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
