Update doc/dev/error-message.md
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ This guideline should unify the message format so that users will get consistent
if other messages appear.
- If your message has multiple sentences, separate them with dots and start with a capital letter like you would do in the normal English language.
- Short but many sentences are preferable over long ones.
-- Avoid abbreviations because not everybody will know them. You can write the abbreviation though in brackets.
+- Use abbreviations and acronyms with care. Not everybody will know them. You can write them in brackets though.
(eg. "No Byte Order Mark (BOM) found" instead of "No BOM found").
- Never use exclamation marks at the end of sentences.
- If it is unclear where embedded strings in error messages start and end ("%s"-strings), surround them by single quotes '.
