Re: Translation opinions

["David Lodge" <dave cirt net>]

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"!)

> Hopefully it only appears in developer documentation?

It's in gtk/po-properties, so it looks like it's mainly designed for  
developers, but I wouldn't be surprised if it could leak out into the user  
world!

Thanks

dave