From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Paul Koning <paul_koning@dell.com>
Cc: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>,
"gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: can we avoid using contractions in GDB messages?
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 04:54:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110308043522.GJ30306@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C6938A0D-9D31-48BA-A62B-D79003BD02BC@dell.com>
> > My $0.02 -- I don't think there's anything wrong with contractions.
> > They're a part of standard English.
>
> True. But they are less familiar to those who are not native speakers.
OK, I think I might have been a little extreme, then, in my judgement
of contractions. I don't think it's question of familiarity, since
I remember learning about them fairly early on, if not in my first
English lesson. Interesting discussion, though :).
--
Joel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-08 4:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-05 0:56 [commit] symfile.c (simple_overlay_update): Check for null return Michael Snyder
2011-03-07 11:07 ` can we avoid using contractions in GDB messages? (was: "[commit] symfile.c (simple_overlay_update): Check for null return.") Joel Brobecker
2011-03-07 11:30 ` can we avoid using contractions in GDB messages? Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-07 12:14 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-03-07 19:07 ` Michael Snyder
2011-03-07 19:19 ` Paul Koning
2011-03-08 4:54 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2011-03-07 21:58 ` can we avoid using contractions in GDB messages? (was: "[commit] symfile.c (simple_overlay_update): Check for null return.") Mike Frysinger
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