On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 1:15 AM, Paulo Costa <[email protected]> wrote: >> 4) Any other option I didn't think of. > > if 4) can be: I will maintain it. I would see it as the be the best option.
I am against such a divisive effort of having 2 translations for the same language. Imagine if people from jamaica would start a jamaican_english and leave it half backed, or next thing there will be corsegan_french 2% complete for years, moldavian_romenian, etc, instead of everyone contributing to a single translation for each language. I'm in favor to Wikipedia's solution: ban such things: 1 language should have only 1 translation. People should try to get into agreements, instead of just forking. You should have brought up particular texts where you think the translation is too brazilian and then we could agreed how to solve the issues on a common ground, but you didn't even try that, did you? But I don't think it is too late, I propose that you bring up all real cases of what you don't like in the pt_BR translation, we could copy it to a pt version and see if all differences can be worked out. If there is room enough for two versions of the same word we could use that. If there isn't, then use wikipedia's solution: Don't change just to change what is already there. Everyone understands all words anyway. > Many times, the word used to describe a certain concept are not the same, > allowing you to identify the writer origin in one or > two phrases. So what? Can't you understand the words? Or are you alergic to portuguese words you consider too brazilian? I imagine what makes americans and britons so englightened that there are no flame wars going on to decide if the translation should spell "color" or "colour". The equivalent of our situation would be britons considering american versions of words so repulsive that they would need to fork their own translation, again I wonder why they can get along while clearly part of the portuguese speeking community doesn't even want to try to get along. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
