Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Native speakers' help with translation wanted

2018-12-05 Thread James
On 04/12/2018 17:13, Aurélien Larcher wrote: Does it boil down to a difference between American English and British English? Not really here, this is more about style and the impression one is trying to convey than dove vs dived. English language does not have an equivalent of the Académie

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Native speakers' help with translation wanted

2018-12-05 Thread Michal Nowak
Thanks everyone! I'll work on the feedback in the days ahead. Michal On 12/04/18 02:51 PM, James wrote: On 04/12/2018 08:41, Michal Nowak wrote: Good afternoon, Can a native English speaker read the changed text at https://github.com/OpenIndiana/openindiana-welcome/pull/10/files and provide

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Native speakers' help with translation wanted

2018-12-04 Thread Volker A. Brandt
Aurélien Larcher writes: > On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 6:04 PM James wrote: > > > On 04/12/2018 15:10, Aurélien Larcher wrote: > > >> "Developers can instantly leverage", leverage is a noun. > > >> > > > It is also a verb. > > > > Lots of people verb nouns, it depends if you want to appear ignorant

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Native speakers' help with translation wanted

2018-12-04 Thread Aurélien Larcher
On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 6:04 PM James wrote: > On 04/12/2018 15:10, Aurélien Larcher wrote: > >> "Developers can instantly leverage", leverage is a noun. > >> > > It is also a verb. > > Lots of people verb nouns, it depends if you want to appear ignorant to > those that do not. My advice*, your

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Native speakers' help with translation wanted

2018-12-04 Thread James
On 04/12/2018 15:10, Aurélien Larcher wrote: "Developers can instantly leverage", leverage is a noun. It is also a verb. Lots of people verb nouns, it depends if you want to appear ignorant to those that do not. My advice*, your choice. * which was solicited.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Native speakers' help with translation wanted

2018-12-04 Thread Aurélien Larcher
On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 2:52 PM James wrote: > On 04/12/2018 08:41, Michal Nowak wrote: > > Good afternoon, > > > Can a native English speaker read the changed text at > > https://github.com/OpenIndiana/openindiana-welcome/pull/10/files and > > provide feedback (either in the PR or here), please?

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Native speakers' help with translation wanted

2018-12-04 Thread James
On 04/12/2018 08:41, Michal Nowak wrote: Good afternoon, Can a native English speaker read the changed text at https://github.com/OpenIndiana/openindiana-welcome/pull/10/files and provide feedback (either in the PR or here), please? I speak English "like a native" which doesn't make me an

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Native speakers' help with translation wanted

2018-12-04 Thread Jean-Pierre André
Michal Nowak wrote: Hi, we are slightly updating the English "Welcome to OpenIndiana Hipster" home page one can see when starting Firefox on MATE installation medium. If you have release/os-welcome package installed you can see the (localized) page at

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Native speakers' help with translation wanted

2018-12-04 Thread Peter Tribble
On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 8:42 AM Michal Nowak wrote: > Hi, > > we are slightly updating the English "Welcome to OpenIndiana Hipster" > home page one can see when starting Firefox on MATE installation medium. > If you have release/os-welcome package installed you can see the > (localized) page at >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Native speakers' help with translation wanted

2018-12-04 Thread Jean-Pierre André
Michal Nowak wrote: Hi, [...] We also ship translations of this page in following languages: pt_br de el es fr nl pl ru sl May I ask native speakers in those languages to step in and help translate the page, please? It's less than half page of text. Where are these translations to be

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Native speakers' help with translation wanted

2018-12-04 Thread Michal Nowak
Hi, we are slightly updating the English "Welcome to OpenIndiana Hipster" home page one can see when starting Firefox on MATE installation medium. If you have release/os-welcome package installed you can see the (localized) page at file:///usr/share/doc/openindiana-welcome/html/index.html