On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 07:08:44PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Eddy Petrisor (eddyp-guest@userbeam.de): > > Hi, > > I was wondering wheather a rephasing is ok, in order to make the message > > more clear : > > "In order to allow the use of > > PCMCIA cards, please choose whether PC card services should be started." > > becomes: > > "In order to allow the use of PCMCIA cards PC services must be started. > > Please choose whether PC card services should be started." > This has to be validated by a native English speaker. The original > phrase is mine and I asked for validation but noone objected..... > Your proposal looks a bit repetitive to me. However, my original > sentence is maybe unclear, maybe bad English....and maybe both..:-) How about "Please choose whether PC card services should be started in order to allow the use of PCMCIA cards." ? I agree that the original is more ambiguous than necessary, and that the second is a bit repetitive. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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