Is there anything wrong with "You have been disconnected from <name of network>" ?
Bob Z. On Wednesday 07 November 2007 12:36:43 pm Dan Williams wrote: > On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 19:50 +0100, Milan wrote: > > Peter Clifton a écrit : > > > On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 16:30 +0100, Milan wrote: > > >>> applet-dbus-devices.c.diff for 0.6.5) change the sentence to "The > > >>> network connection has been interrupted.", which is the same as the > > >> > > >> old > > >> > > >>> but with correct syntax. > > > > > > What do you mean "with correct syntax?" > > > > <snip> > > > > Maybe to be more precise, it would be a semantic mistake, grammar in its > > stict sense is still correct here. > > > > >From my previous report on Bugzilla: > > > > When the network is disconnected, a notification appears, saying: > > "The network connection has been disconnected." > > > > This is one of the sentences you show most often on your desktop, and it > > is quite grammatically incorrect. *You can't disconnect a connexion, you > > disconnect a cable; I'd rather say you stop/interrupt/bring down a > > connexion. This is like saying "prices are expensive" or "speed is fast": > > just ridiculous... ;-)* > > > > Moreover, the title of the pop-up is "Disconnected", so the term appears > > twice. > > The problem with "interrupted" is that it implies that the connection > will come back of it's own accord, or that you were always meant to be > connected but that it just dropped out for a short period, which > definitely isn't the case. We need something that implies that you have > no network anymore. "Down" doesn't work (like somebody said) because > WTF does down mean. The user just needs to know that they don't have a > network connection anymore, even though there are a myriad of reasons > that this even may have occurred. > > Dan > > > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
