On 16 August 2003 02:38, Hafid wrote: > Hi, > I want to make some remarks concerning the PHP Documentation > but I'm afraid to make someone angry. These remarks are > based on my efforts to translate the documentation. I also remarked > that the same problems were lived by other translation groups but I > don't know if > they did the above remarks. So finally, I think these remarks are > worthy. > > I want to ask you to simplify texts: you are not obliged to > use statements > inside statements. It is not a general rule: but sometimes > when I find them > I really stay a lot of time trying just to understand the meaning, > and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Just simplify at the maximum. > Please. > > Try to make sentences the easiest possible: sometimes it's > very hard to > translate couples like this: > example 1 >> Must be writable by whatever user PHP is running as. > example 2 >> The following table describes some of the extensions > available and required additional dlls.
These are extremely simple examples of English, and should not be in the least difficult to understand. I have to say that, in my opinion, if you cannot easily follow the meaning of these, your understanding of English must be extremely basic, and certainly not up to the job of translating a technical document such as the PHP manual. Cheers! Mike --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Ford, Electronic Information Services Adviser, Learning Support Services, Learning & Information Services, JG125, James Graham Building, Leeds Metropolitan University, Beckett Park, LEEDS, LS6 3QS, United Kingdom Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 113 283 2600 extn 4730 Fax: +44 113 283 3211 -- PHP Documentation Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
