From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30939 invoked by alias); 8 Mar 2011 04:35:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 30849 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Mar 2011 04:35:52 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 04:35:48 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 280F12BAE4B; Mon, 7 Mar 2011 23:35:47 -0500 (EST) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id zcLOucFSBNW3; Mon, 7 Mar 2011 23:35:47 -0500 (EST) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B47312BAE1B; Mon, 7 Mar 2011 23:35:46 -0500 (EST) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B458F1459AD; Tue, 8 Mar 2011 08:35:22 +0400 (RET) Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 04:54:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Paul Koning Cc: Michael Snyder , "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" Subject: Re: can we avoid using contractions in GDB messages? Message-ID: <20110308043522.GJ30306@adacore.com> References: <4D718A22.3020302@vmware.com> <20110307105158.GZ30306@adacore.com> <4D752A3B.6090603@vmware.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-03/txt/msg00514.txt.bz2 > > 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