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List:       mono-devel-list
Subject:    [Mono-devel-list] Spelling error in MCS message
From:       Jo Vermeulen <jo () lumumba ! luc ! ac ! be>
Date:       2004-12-18 13:28:41
Message-ID: 1103376521.29167.8.camel () localhost ! localdomain
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Hello,

This is just a detail, and I might be wrong since I'm not a native
English speaker. The MCS message I'm talking about is this one:

error CS0031: Can not convert the expression to a boolean

Shouldn't this be "Cannot convert ..."? Microsoft .NET [1] uses "cannot"
it seems. According to the Oxford dictionary [2] "cannot" is used more
frequently. And Google suggests a correction too ("Did you mean...")
[3].

[1]
http://longhorn.msdn.microsoft.com/lhsdk/ndp/vcerrCompilerErrorSC0031.aspx
[2] http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutspelling/cannot
[3] http://www.google.com/search?&q=can%20not

Kind regards,

-- 
Jo Vermeulen <jo@lumumba.luc.ac.be>


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