Re: Ubuntu en_GB translation team
- From: Rob Bradford <rob robster org uk>
- To: gnome-uk-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Ubuntu en_GB translation team
- Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 18:23:05 +0200
On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 16:27 +0100, 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).
The icon on my desktop is not a rubbish bin, or a wastepaper basket or
any such things. It's the recycling. (Since it has the recycling logo on
it.)
Hope that confuses things.
Cheers,
Rob
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Rob Bradford <rob robster org uk>
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