[Psi-devel] Invalid string in whiteboard code

Cliff Dugal psi at pico.ca
Thu Feb 15 17:45:55 PST 2007


On Thursday, February 15, 2007 14:22, Kevin Smith wrote:
> The text should really read:
> > "If you wish to join an existing session,
> > choose from one of the recently detected sessions
> > or type in your own, else leave the field empty."
> >
> > BTW: A question to native English speakers: is it possible to use
> > "Otherwise" in above text instead of "Else" in last sentence?
>
> You could, but Else sounds nicer to me.

I would rephrase that to something like this:

"To join an existing session, choose a recently detected session or type in a 
session's name. [Otherwise,] To start a new session, leave the field blank."

We're more of an "otherwise" type crowd around here, although its use is 
optional in the way I wrote the instructions above.
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