Re: Patch to correct a little wording mistake

[Bob Ziuchkovski <bob ziuchkovski gmail com>]

Is there anything wrong with "You have been disconnected from <name of 
network>" ?

Bob Z.

On Wednesday 07 November 2007 12:36:43 pm Dan Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 19:50 +0100, Milan wrote:
> > Peter Clifton a écrit :
> > > On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 16:30 +0100, Milan wrote:
> > >>> applet-dbus-devices.c.diff for 0.6.5) change the sentence to "The
> > >>> network connection has been interrupted.", which is the same as the
> > >>
> > >> old
> > >>
> > >>> but with correct syntax.
> > >
> > > What do you mean "with correct syntax?"
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > Maybe to be more precise, it would be a semantic mistake, grammar in its
> > stict sense is still correct here.
> >
> > >From my previous report on Bugzilla:
> >
> > When the network is disconnected, a notification appears, saying:
> > "The network connection has been disconnected."
> >
> > This is one of the sentences you show most often on your desktop, and it
> > is quite grammatically incorrect. *You can't disconnect a connexion, you
> > disconnect a cable; I'd rather say you stop/interrupt/bring down a
> > connexion. This is like saying "prices are expensive" or "speed is fast":
> > just ridiculous... ;-)*
> >
> > Moreover, the title of the pop-up is "Disconnected", so the term appears
> > twice.
>
> The problem with "interrupted" is that it implies that the connection
> will come back of it's own accord, or that you were always meant to be
> connected but that it just dropped out for a short period, which
> definitely isn't the case.  We need something that implies that you have
> no network anymore.  "Down" doesn't work (like somebody said) because
> WTF does down mean.  The user just needs to know that they don't have a
> network connection anymore, even though there are a myriad of reasons
> that this even may have occurred.
>
> Dan
>
>
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