Re: Translation opinions

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 10 Sep 2006, at 08:30, David Lodge wrote:

> On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 17:23:35 +0100, Alex Hudson <home alexhudson com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 17:12 +0100, David Lodge wrote:
> > > Every time I see the word "ellipsize" I get shivers - as it's not a
> > > word,
> > > just turning a noun into a verb. I could be lazy and turn this into
> > > "ellipsise", but this doesn't feel right with me.
> > Although "ellipsize" refers to a specific technical string mangling
> > technique, I think it would be better to use "abbreviate" or a  
> > synonym:
> > "truncate", perhaps.
>
> In the end I translated it to truncate, plus I raised a bug  
> (355232) as I
> feel it's a manglation for manglation's sake. (The developers are  
> going to
> hate me - I earlier raised a bug complaining about the use of the word
> "got"!)

I'm not sure exactly what situation it's referring to in this case,  
but in general I would say "abbreviating" is probably more accurate  
than "truncating", as in general, "ellipsisation" needn't necessarily  
happen at the end of a string, which is what "truncating" suggests.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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