On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 07:19:39PM +0100, Farid Hajji wrote: > Yes I know. I've been involved with reviewing book drafts > and translations of technical texts. I always wonder about > the ueber-eagerness to force widely used technical jargon > into an artificial pseudo-localized language with doesn't > look right, neither for english-aware readers, nor for > people who need the translation.
I also wonder about that, and even joke about it by exaggerating it (e.g. saying `Rueckfuetterung' instead of `Feedback'). But when there is a german term that describes a thing well, I like to use it. And `Heimverzeichnis' (which is less widely used, but certainly _is_ used) just makes a lot of sense to me, but maybe that's because I'm sometimes talking with people who are no geeks. Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang, who refuses to call a mobile phone a `Handy'.
