-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
2014-08-11 20:56 GMT+03:00 Isarra Yos <[email protected]>: > On 10/08/14 20:06, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > > בתאריך 10 באוג 2014 23:01, "Ori Livneh" <[email protected]> כתב: >> Can't it simply be known as "the left rail" in Arabic, then? > > No, because a lot of speakers of RTL languages will read emails, blog posts > and village pump notifications about it in English and will try to > understand how it applies to their projects. Let's try to prevent the > confusion from the start. > > > Do they not notice that the interface is flipped between LTR and RTL > languages? Intuitively it seems like that would be the assumption, that > right would simply become left. This requires considerable extra mental processing. > That said, it does seem like a better solution would just be to refer to the > thing by its function rather than position anyway, mind you. Functions are > important, and if they're not important, well, that's a problem all by > itself. Precisely. Function is by definition more meaningful that "left" and "right".
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