Re: Terminology

[Christian Rose <menthos df lth se>]

On 16 Apr 2001, Mike Newman wrote:
> > Ok, I can see that the user has preferences and the app has settings,
> > but if we were to call the configuration dialog that we present to the
> > user "Preferences" then we would be implying that the dialog presented
> > options in terms of the user's preferences, when actually 99.9% of
> > such dialogs present it in terms of the app's settings.
>
> True enough - is there perhaps a neutral term which translates well
> which could strike a balance between the two?

Fun that you mention translations - in Swedish we translate both
"Settings" and "Preferences" to the same word, since there is only a
slight difference and that difference would be lost in the translation
anyway.

As for "directory" and "folder", they are also clearly different words in
Swedish and some other languages.


Christian