Hello!
Stephan Sokolow has written on Monday, 23 December, at 4:29:
>On 13-12-22 08:06 PM, Piotr Sipika wrote:
>>> "Copying file operation was interrupted and some errors were encountered"
>>> Would that look correctly?
>> I think so.
>Except that "Copying file operation" isn't correct English. (You want
>"File-copying operation")
>The problem is that the pattern is "<adjective> operation" and "Copying
>file" doesn't make intuitive sense as an adjective.
>When you say "copying file", you're either saying "[I am] copying [the]
>file." or you're saying "a file of type 'copying'" (Like "temporary file")
>Adjectives build left-ward from the noun they modify but, intuitively,
>we know there's no such thing as a "copying file" so, on the first
>attempt to parse is, the mind assumes "copying" must have been used as a
>verb, "operation" is what's being copied, and "file" is the type of
>"operation" being copied.
>As with using the possessive form of words, you reverse the order when
>making adjectives ("The head of the toy belonging to the dog belonging
>to Dave" becomes "Dave's dog's toy's head") and you use a hyphen to
>indicate that multiple words are part of the same adjective.
>(That "file" modifies "copying" and then "copying" modifies "operation"
>rather than "file" and "copying" both modifying "operation" directly.)
>Hence:
>"An operation of copying of files"
>-----------------------------------
>"An operation" -> "operation"
>"An operation of copying" -> "copying operation"
>"An operation of (copying of files)" "file-copying operation"
>-----------------------------------
>"file-copying operation"
>(Without the hyphen, it'd be "an operation of copying *and* files")
Well, the main reason for the wording above is I wish to reuse the
word "Copying" ("Trashing", "Restoring", ...) into template to not create
excess work for translators. So any form that can reuse "Copying" is fine
for me. Since "Copying file ...." isn't fully correct, may be we can use
form "Copying: file operation was ...." instead?
With best regards.
Andriy.
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