Re: [Mageia-discuss] Chinese translation for Mageia's page

[Funda Wang]

2010/10/1  <future...@asia.com>:
> Sorry, I once confused the two words "fork" and "branch". It is difficult to
> exactly translate the word "fork" into Chinese. Now, I feel that, the word
> "fork" has the meaning "parallel and independent", while the word "branch"
> has the meaning "dependent". So, "fork" is not "branch". Can the word "fork"
> be translated into "衍生"?
No. "衍生" often refers to derivative rather than fork.