distinguish between "on" and "about"

Yuri Chornoivan yurchor at ukr.net
Sat Mar 17 09:14:08 UTC 2018


субота, 17 березня 2018 р. 07:45:32 EET Leslie Satenstein написано:
> Consider
> 
> Chapter 1. Introduction
> Welcome to KDE!
> This guide will introduce you to the many features of the Plasma workspace
> and applications and describe many common tasks you can perform.
> For more information *on* KDE, visit the KDE website.
> 
> You can be on topic or off topic, or you can be on a table or chair
> But do you want        "For more information *about* KDE?"   USA uses on in
> place of about.  The English world is larger than the USA.
> 
> 
> 
> Leslie Satenstein
> Montreal, Quebec


Hi,

This is from Fundamentals manual:

https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/applications/fundamentals/introduction.html

Native speaker opinion needed.

Thanks in advance for your comments (the original reporter is not in the list 
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Best regards,
Yuri


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