:)
I remember a Monty Python skit where a British gentleman on a bicycle
gets hit by a car and he gets up saying "sorry, sorry".
David
Daniel John Debrunner wrote:
Laura Stewart wrote:
*** (LS) Responses below
On 6/7/06, David Van Couvering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
*** (LS) While I like to be polite too, we are not sitting down to tea
with the users :-) It is more professional in technical
documentation to
leave the "Please" out. Besides, the key is not to be polite, but to
provide the information that users need to resolve the problem.
Ah, I beg to differ. I think that users too often are treated too
brusquely in the way a system communicates with them.
We can handle this with the variant field of locales.
en_US_unix - Error 84
en_US_1960robot - Log directory {0} exists. Fix.
en_US_polite - Log directory {0} exists. The directory may belong to
another database. Please make sure the specified logDevice location is
correct.
en_US_youknowwho - Log directory {0} exists. Someone from Sun or IBM
should fix this for you.
en_UK_polite - I'm terribly sorry to disturb you, but the log directory
{0} exists, I'm sure it's my fault. Please don't worry about it, no, no,
really, it's not a problem.
en_UK_jeeves - <no error - a good butler fixes such issues>
Dan
(Sorry, bored in an airport)
