Re: Divergences between ubuntu-l10n and gnome-i18n regarding en_GB

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

Toby Smithe wrote:
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> Thomas Wood wrote:
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> > Personally I think "Deleted Items" is a bad translation of "Trash".
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> Which is why we use "Deleted Items Folder" when we need a singular noun.
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Another reason... does deleted items really make sense at all? These 
items obviously have not been deleted! What are you doing when you 
"Empty the Deleted Items folder"? Are you deleting deleted items?!

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> > As pointed out, "Trash" is used to refer to a container, where as "Deleted
> > Items" refers to contents. If the developers had wanted it to be called
> > it "Deleted Items", then they would have done. The en_GB translation
> > should not be changing the meanings of words, but simply replacing
> > Americanisms with more English equivalents.
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> And that's what we try to do. We had many British equivalents on the
> poll, and "Deleted Items [Folder]" won by majority vote. If the Britons
> chose that, then surely it's more British than a choice (hmm, well this
> wouldn't really be a choice...) forced upon them?
Just because it won the majority vote doesn't mean it was the right 
decision ;-) Who proposed the options in the first place, and what makes 
it a definitive election? However, I'm not going to rant about 
statistics or politics. Unfortunately or not, you've obviously had a 
public and democratic vote on the matter, and it will be very difficult 
for you to go back on that decision. I think the important thing to 
discuss is how these decisions are going to be made in the future when 
the Ubuntu team thinks a translation could be improved. Recently,and 
issues in the en_GB translation have been raised on the gnome-uk mailing 
list. If there are any more en_GB translations you consider could be 
revised, it would be a great start to ask on the gnome-uk mailing list. 
This is probably the best place to liaise with the people involved in 
the en_GB translation in Gnome.

-Thomas