Hi - For all of the non-native English speakers please know that like Spanish English has many dialects.
Also please recall that on the website we currently keep the tag line “The Free and Open Productivity Suite” as text and allow translations for the native websites. Again I want to let people know that we are really debating between a quick solution and perfect solutions. Regards, Dave Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 12, 2020, at 10:35 AM, Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> wrote: > > On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 19:17:18 +0200 > Czesław Wolański <czeslaw.wolan...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Brian, all >> >>> Don't be embarrassed; here's a fun fact: >>> you are in good company. >> >> Thank you for pointing out this mistake. >> I can only speak for myself - I am grateful and not embarrassed at all. >> My mother tongue (L1 - Polish) makes me wonder if I'll ever understand it, >> let alone foreign languages I happen to "speak". >> >> Just out of curiosity (I am not the cat...): >> Wording "Since 20 years" is simply not English, unless it refers to a point >> in time code-named "20 years" >> True or False? ;‑) > > One could say "Since twenty years have elapsed, we might reasonably presume > XYZ is dead" or "As twenty years have elapsed, we might reasonably presume > XYZ is dead" > > "I have not taken a photograph since I hung up my cameras thirty years ago." > > Rory > > >> Regards, >> >> Czesław >> >> >> сб, 12 сент. 2020 г. в 18:29, Brian Barker >> <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com.invalid>: >> >>> At 13:33 12/09/2020 +0200, Czeslaw Wolanski wrote: >>>> Due file is available at the following link: >>>> >>> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C8WAM7z5MEoW9VnLtwXBfqYGoPSTtbPN/view?usp=sharing >>>> >>>> COMMENT >>>> ... there should be a way to gently move the >>>> focus from the otherwise important "Apache / >>>> Open Office" to Jörg's sound suggestion: "Open. For all. Since 20 years" >>> >>> Sorry, but as has already been pointed out, >>> "since 20 years" is simply not English. "Since" >>> requires a point in time, not a period of time. >>> So you can say "since 2000" or "since twenty >>> years *ago*", but not "since 20 years". For a >>> period of time, idiomatic English definitely requires "for": "for 20 >>> years". >>> >>> Don't be embarrassed; here's a fun fact: you are >>> in good company. The lyricist of the Swedish pop >>> group ABBA (Björn Ulvaeus?) is proud of the >>> accuracy of the English lyrics he wrote. But he >>> quotes against himself the one mistake he >>> recognises. Not happening to be a pop fan, I've >>> had to look this up, but in _Fernando_ appears >>> the (incorrect) line "Since many years I haven't >>> seen a rifle in your hand". Read "For many years...". >>> >>> Brian Barker >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >>> >>> > > > -- > Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
