Re: Ubuntu en_GB translation team

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 14 Sep 2006, at 16:19, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:

> Take for example the debate over what to name the 'Trash'. We  
> settled on
> Deleted Items for a number of reasons, which are chronicled on our  
> mailing
> list[2]. To summarise, 'Wastebasket', 'Wastebin' and especially  
> 'Trash' sound
> foreign to many English speakers, so we sought an alternative.

I don't doubt this, and I fully support your efforts... but just out  
of interest, what do those users call the thing on the floor that  
they toss their rubbish into?  I can't think of that many different  
names for it, and they're all similar enough that it's hard to  
envisage much genuine confusion (especially as, on the GNOME desktop  
at least, we nearly always show a picture of the recepticle we're  
talking about as well).

Cheeri,
Calum.

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