Re: "New" problems in Evolution (was Re: Translation problems)

[Christian Rose <menthos gnome org>]

mån 2003-10-20 klockan 05.39 skrev Ross Golder:
> > Of course, with the current design they can only use one of these
> > genders (the button currently says "Ny" in the Swedish translation)
> > which will be wrong in about 50% of the cases. :-(
>
> Just a thought, but why not translate the 'new' menu text to 'Ny/Nytt'
> (with a slash) to indicate it contains both types? Probably wouldn't
> look too pretty though :)

Yes, it would look very ugly, and several languages have more than two
genders. Greek has three, etc, like many Indo-European languages
(feminine, masculine and neuter).


Christian