In official messages the shortened form is wrong to be used.
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd < [email protected]> wrote: > Péter Gábor wrote: > > I agree with Hans-Peter! :) >> >> In Hungarian there are four(!) form of addressing the partner in a >> communication: >> > > Etc. Thanks for that, interesting. What is the position in Hungarian and > other languages and their attendant cultures as far as the computer's > assuming personhood is concerned? In English, there's now a tendency (which > I think came in with Windows '95) for a computer to ask "Should I delete > this file?" rather than the older "Delete this file (Y/N)?" and so on? > > (I'm reminded of the situation where some New York apartment blocks set > their elevators to stop at every floor on Saturday, so that Jewish > residents don't break the Sabbath by giving orders to a servant- even > though that servant is a machine.) > > -- > Mark Morgan Lloyd > markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk > > [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Lazarus mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus >
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