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

[Toby Smithe <toby smithe gmail com>]

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Thomas Wood wrote:
> 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.

Thanks. I will go ahead and discuss on ubuntu-l10n-eng, and will
hopefully follow up with any decisions.



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