Hi Jonathan My issue was with localization and the pont of view of the interaction with the computer in the written text.
thanks Anthony From: "Jonathan Aquilina" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: "Dennis Baudys" <[email protected]>, [email protected] Sent: Monday, May 7, 2012 5:05:07 PM Subject: Re: Who speaks Frist: Human or Computer Can someone clarify something. Is this in relation to gramatical issues in localization or having to do with voice recognition? Regards Jonathan Aquilina On May 7, 2012, at 5:23 PM, [email protected] wrote: Excellent. Thanks for the clarifications. Anthony From: "Dennis Baudys" < [email protected] > To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Sent: Monday, May 7, 2012 3:44:53 PM Subject: Re: Who speaks Frist: Human or Computer Am Montag, den 07.05.2012, 15:27 +0200 schrieb [email protected] : > Hi Dennis > > > So in German, you just state an action to be performed as a way of > avoiding the use of Du or Sie? Yes. »Du« will _never_ be used. »Sie« will be avoided wherever possible (with very few exemptions like dialog prompts and user instructions in manuals etc.). > When you see a menu item "Datei öffnen" does it give a sense that the > human expects the computer to Open the file while the computer quietly > goes ahead and carries out the request? Exactly. > Is there a distinction with social 'behaviour' in this manner of > acting such that the people expect that this is only ok if dealing > with a computer? Correct. People do not talk like this to each other. This is only used in interactions with machines (however this is a high standard that not all translators of Software besides Ubuntu follow in the wild). Regards, -- Dennis Baudys email: [email protected] GPG key-ID: E4A9FB08 fingerprint: CB9A 86FF 1C20 0426 3912 0276 3A78 E23F E4A9 FB08 Prüfer im deutschen Ubuntu-Übersetzer-Team launchpad: ~thecondordb -- ubuntu-translators mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-translators
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