Forgot to reply to all... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Leonardo Fontenelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 20/12/2006 00:20 Subject: Re: Verbs form in UI actions To: Christian Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
2006/12/19, Christian Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Swedish uses imperative on all menu items and buttons, except for some > old translations (like "File" menu => "Arkiv") that are nouns by > convention (that's what they were mistakenly translated to in the > early days of GUIs, and that's what people simply expect them to be > today). Any more recent menu/button terms are all imperatives (like > "Exit" => "Avsluta" and "Close" => "Stäng"). I've thought of "File" as a verb :-o In Portuguese (both in Brazil and in Portugal) it is translated as a noun, and I never heard anyone complain about that. > and we all say the equivalent of "you" Just for curiosity, in Brazil (AFAIK not Portugal) we do that a lot, although less than in Sweden. We are much less formal than most Europeans :) Leonardo Fontenelle _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
