Re: Ubuntu en_GB translation team

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 4 Oct 2006, at 16:27, Calum Benson wrote:

> 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).

Never mind... am just catching up on a month's worth of mail and have  
just encountered the susbequent thread about this :)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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