As some of you might've noticed, we in the Swedish translation 'team,'
if I dare call us that, have been bumping in to some difficulties when
it comes to semi-names such as "flatpage."

The word 'flatpage' is obviously not a real English word, but a made-
up compound of "flat" and "page" to describe what the app does, had it
been "flat page," we'd be able to translate it more flexibly.

As an example, Swedish doesn't really have that sort of "flat" that
English has, and some of the suggestions are static, flat as in not
elevated and plain flat, which doesn't really have the same meaning in
Swedish.

So the real question is, how much do we dare bend the original name?
For a developer, seeing one's flatpage models appear as "statiska
sidor" (static pages) would be confusing, at least I'd like to think
so. Then again, for a non-developer, it'd make twice as much sense
compared to "flata sidor" (lit. non-elevated pages, or if you want to
interpret it colloquially, "feminine homosexual pages").

I don't think we'll ever reach a consensus on this one, so I ask: What
have you other translators done here? Surely, you've met these issues
too?

Sincerely,
Ludvig Ericson


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