Thanks for commenting!
Fons Adriaensen schreef:
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 03:56:03PM +0100, Alwin wrote:
Although in general people from Belgium and the Netherlands
understand English very well, I think most will prefer the
user interface to be in their own language. It just feels
more natural.
Are you sure ? Does
"missende PropList dictionary-invoer-key of onbeëindigde dictionary"
really feel more natural than
"missing PropList dictionary entry key or unterminated dictionary" ?
It's still 50% English, and unless you know what a PropList,
and a dictionary are, what it means will remain a mystery.
And if you know those things the original is perfectly clear.
To me at least this sort of 'nederengels' just sounds silly,
and it sure doesn't justice to my native language.
You've probably found the most ugly one. :-) I wanted to translate as
much as possible of it, leaving the keywords alone, as it would make a
web search impossible. I'm not very happy with the result though.
Some things just can't be translated. For example, your dictionary
(in the usual sense) may say that 'entry' translates to 'ingang',
but in 'passwd entry' it means something entirely different: an
item in a list.
"Ingang" has more than 1 meaning according to vandale.nl: it also means
the English "entry" as an item in a list.
It's quite normal to use 'entry' with this meaning
in English, but for some words used in 'computerese' that is not the
case. They refer to very specific things, and translating them
literally just doesn't work. For example, changing 'dictionary'
into 'woordenboek' in the example above won't improve it.
OK, I agree with you. The main problem with this msgid, is that it's
almost entirely terminology, and mixing it with Dutch makes it worse. I
haven't thought of not translating string like these, but I actually
like the idea.
I'll write a patch to not translate "missing PropList dictionary entry
key or unterminated dictionary" and similar msgid's. I'll wait a few
days, because maybe more ugliness will be found. ;-)
Cheers
Ciao,
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[alwin]
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