[PATCH] Modifications on author texts in About dialog

Bram Schoenmakers bramschoenmakers at kde.nl
Fri Jun 24 09:44:40 BST 2005


Michael Pyne, you wrote something like this:
> On Thursday 23 June 2005 10:54, Bram Schoenmakers wrote:
> > Which looks rather silly. The attached patch will make it display the
> > text "Please use bramschoenmakers at kde.nl to report bugs." in this
> > situation.
>
> Wouldn't "Please email foo at bar to report bugs." be better, or even "Please
> report bugs to foo at bar." ?
>
> The 'use' in "Please use bram..." is not generally used to indicate
> interaction with a person (except possibly in a derogatory manner).  At
> least, that seems to be how it is for American English.

You're more familiar with the Enlgish language than I am, so I'll change that. 
Thanks.

Kind regards,

-- 
Bram Schoenmakers
KDE Netherlands (www.kde.nl)




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