Il 17/10/2014 12:16, Mattias Gaertner ha scritto:
On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 11:58:21 +0200
Reinier Olislagers <[email protected]> wrote:
Dealing with error messages, I remember reading somewhere that
contractions like cannot=>can't are discouraged, so e.g.
Can't find file bla.txt.
should become
Cannot find file bla.txt
Have other people seen this? I'd appreciate links to relevant info.
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.
As we can't (;-) ) determine with precision our audience, I'd stick to
the shorter form.
Just my 2c
Giuliano
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