More "what do you do with..?" questions
- From: Telsa Gwynne <hobbit aloss ukuu org uk>
- To: gnome-i18n gnome org
- Subject: More "what do you do with..?" questions
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 15:36:09 +0000
It's me again, with more questions.
Going through the huge number of words and concepts to translate,
I became curious. Do the different teams translate all of these?
applet; GUI; VFS; encapsulated postscript; metafile; shell, sub-shell,
sub-shell support; pixmap; widget?
I am presuming that at least some of these make more sense left
alone: no-one knows what VFS means in English anyway, as far as
I can make out. There are a load more, but that seemed quite
enough.
What do you with with killer app? It sounds like an assassin when
I look at the words and imagine what it might mean if I didn't know.
I'm particularly interested in whether you distinguish between
directory and folder? How? What about "vfolders"?
Similarly there are reboot and restart; and the mess of words
to do with setting preferences: apply, submit, discard and so on.
But the directory/folder/vfolder one looks like it's going to
take thought so I am wondering what other people do with them.
Are you getting overlaps and overloaded words? I have heard that
package and packet often end up translated as the same word, for
example?
Telsa
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