https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172952
--- Comment #4 from Neil Roberts <[email protected]> --- I asked a Slovakian friend for advice. The button is currently translated in Slovakian as “Použiť v module %MODULE” which translated back into English is something like “use in module %MODULE”. The “module” word is “modul” in the nominative case. It seems quite likely that the Slovakian translator put the word module in the there because it’s not possible to put %MODULE in the nominative case without knowing what word will replace it. A more natural translation would be just directly like “use in Writer”. My friend suggested that the “in Writer” part would translate to something like “vo Writeri”, “v Calcu”, “v Impresse”, “v Drawe” etc. He said that he wasn’t sure about some of the endings because you have to pick the ending based on the sound of the word and some of the sounds don’t exist in Slovakian. But, the point is that the current approach is hindering having a natural translation because you can’t put the right suffix on “%MODULE”. So I think that is quite a good argument for splitting the strings out into separate ones with the full text like “Apply to Writer”, “Apply to Impress” etc, regardless of whether we decide to stop letting translators translate the module names. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
