Do not use contractions like Can't and should't Interface text

What about haven't, isn't, aren't?

This won't be simple. grep -rn "[a-z]'t" core | wc -l returns 1836. I would split the task into a few small ones.

You shouldn't change any vendor file, just the Drupal core files.

Btw, vendor directory was removed recently from the repository.
#1475510: Remove external dependencies from the core repo and let Composer manage the dependencies instead

Ran a little script.
Did not touch js and css files.
Now grep -rn "[a-z]'t" core | wc -l returns 300.

Another try.
Tested the patch.

Sorry but based on the link(https://www.drupal.org/node/604342) provided in the issue description it says, "This page contains guidelines for Drupal module and theme developers to use when writing user interfaces text (e.g., buttons, labels, in-page help, descriptions below fields, and (error) messages." but in these fixes were changing code comments that aren't related to user interfaces text.

Just wanted to understand and maybe make the scope clearer.

Thanks!

I completely agree with leolando.tan. I actually had this thing in mind when tried to work on this bug. These changes, as made in patches, are mostly in comments and have nothing in relation with user interface text.

Thanks!

I have replaced contractions with complete phrases on user interface texts. As per #21 and #19 skipped comment and readme texts.

The test failure is unrelated to my work. Can any one look into this ?

Seems like your changes needs to be rerolled to the latest 8.2.x-dev branch. Lot of files changed.

Patch rerolled to latest changes.

tested the patch and its working.
Good work @magi.yv

It fails the automated test.

@magi.yv: Oops missed that this was assigned before tagging it for the sprint on the weekend, sorry. Are you still working on this?

No. You can take this.

Thanks for the feedback!

What's wrong with contractions?

@lokapujya, there are some good explanations in that issue.

It reads:

Anything else is more of an end user facing manual/directions, these should be informal, inline with current Drupal.org guidelines.

We really shouldn't be converting contractions that are in the UI. The UI should be informal. By not using contractions, Drupal is going to sound snobbery.

Space is often at a premium in UI text; perhaps there is an advantage to contractions sometimes.

Spoke with a few folks (including heddn) at DrupalCon New Orleans and we reached a consensus that this creates serious issues with translations. Closing this issue.