[Mageia-i18n] [Bug 7866] Comma not needed in Dialog "Please, choose your keyboard layout"

lebarhon lebarhon at free.fr
Tue Dec 11 19:10:24 CET 2012


Le 11/12/2012 17:18, Marja van Waes a écrit :
> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7866
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> Marja van Waes<marja11 at xs4all.nl>  changed:
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> --- Comment #3 from Marja van Waes<marja11 at xs4all.nl>  2012-12-11 17:18:29 CET ---
> (In reply to comment #2)
>> Are you sure that comma is unneeded?
> I just asked a British and an American native English speaker in #mageia-doc.
> They both agreed that in normal speech you don't pause after "please", but when
> frustrated you can pause, like in:
>
> "I've told you so many times now. Please, tidy your room."
Marja, that smells the very real life :-P
>
> So the comma indicates a feeling of stress or irritation. It seems better to
> remove it.
>



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