Re: [Fwd: en_GB translation of "trash"]

[Etenil <etenil etenilsrealm nl>]

I would vote for "Pit of Death", as in the movie 300. You kick your
files in the Pit of Death and perhaps salvage them if your inner
Leonidas feels like it.

-----Original Message-----
From: David Lodge <dave cirt net>
To: gnome-uk-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [Fwd: en_GB translation of "trash"]
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 20:57:02 +0100

On Tue, 25 May 2010 17:36:17 +0100, Marco Barisione  
<marco www barisione org> wrote:
> Translations should be about translating software, not about improving
> the original strings. If you think that the metaphor is wrong you should
> get it fixed upstream and updated in all the translations.

That's pretty much the whole problem with Ubuntu's strange definition of  
"Deleted Items"; they had a poll many years ago and decided to split from  
upstream. I disagree with that choice and am happy that Gnome didn't  
follow them. One important note about Ubuntu, is that the "en (British)"  
team actually is "en (non-US)", as they decided not to fork the sub  
divisions of English, so they're trying to find a term that'll fit  
English, Austrailian English, Canadian English, Indian English etc.

I personally care not, I always disable and hide the wastebin (I'm of the  
belief if that I tell the system to delete a file - it should delete it  
without some pouncy thing getting in the way). I realise that not  
everybody feels that way though.

My vote would be to use the graceful, high class and all-round charming  
terminology that would follow my native Yorkshire dialect and call it the  
Sh*tehole :-)
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