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From: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info>
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Subject: Re: "May", "can", "might"
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Bruce Momjian a écrit :
> Standard English uses "may", "can", and "might" in different ways:
> 
> 	may - permission, "You may borrow my rake."
> 	
> 	can - ability, "I can lift that log."
> 	
> 	might - possibility, "It might rain today."
> 
> Unfortunately, in conversational English, their use is often mixed, as
> in, "You may use this variable to do X", when in fact, "can" is a better
> choice.  Similarly, "It may crash" is better stated, "It might crash".
> 
> I would like to clean up our documentation to consistently use these
> words.  Objections?
> 

No objections at all... it can only ease translations.

> (Who says were obsessive?)  :-)
> 

:)


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Guillaume.
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