Languages evolve and adopt words take motooka and saati for instance English itself is full of formaely foreighn words like chef, safari , panga etc so why not use this instance to adopt cookie or perhaps aka kuuchy as a "new" luganda word and lots more !
----- Original Message ----- From: "Catherine Aloikin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Linux Users Group Uganda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 9:33 PM Subject: Re: [LUG] Mozilla Translation Beta Test > > > > Cookie could be a magic number or a magic incantation that recalls a > > previous position that one was in. Surely there would be such a word or > > phrase :-) > > Not that I said it wasn't or couldn't be there but just the fact that a > word that brings out the meaning was found. > > I am not sure if you actually know luganda but I think it's one of those > rich languages. Besides that, some folk sent me mail last week, that had > been written in japanese and then translated to english, I could hardly > make sense out of the whole thing. Where ever I thought there should have > been 'I' there was 'It'. Had to read between the lines. > > > > > -- G. > > > > > So far, looks real good save for a few words that are still not > > > translated. The preferences (weloboze) window is still quite young, it > > > will need to grow. > > > > > > Couldn't wait to see the translation of 'Cookie Manager', that like real > > > ^^^^^^ > > > cool. > > > > > > -CA > > > _______________________________________________ > > > LUG mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LUG mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
