Re: Ubuntu en_GB translation team

["Thomas Thurman" <thomas thurman org uk>]

On 04/10/06, Andrew Sobala <as583 cam ac uk> wrote:

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).
>

Bin or dustbin, in my part(s?) of the world.

Same here, or rubbish bin.

peace

Thomas / tjat2