[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 103093] "Insert as Link" should be renamed to "Reference externally ( non-embedded)"

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103093

--- Comment #18 from Björn Michaelsen <bjoern.michaelsen at canonical.com> ---
(In reply to Luke from comment #16)
> Your claim that "Hyperlink is terribly dated vocabulary" is patently false for us native speakers.

Citation needed (just as is for my original assumption that 'hyperlink' is
being dated).

> Any native English speaker with basic computer literacy knows exactly what
> ‘hyperlink’ means and does not find it confusing.

I still find that doubtful. I assume that asking 20 random people (which is the
target audience for LibreOffice, not people on bugtrackers) on the street of a
native english speaking country will only yield a minority confidently be able
to answer the question "Can you tell what the difference between a hyperlink
and a link in your browser is?" with "There isnt one." -- Most will assume a
'hyperlink' to be some Magic Thing that is special and different from the
'normal' link they know from their browser.

Anyway, the 'native english' thing was and is just a limitation of the scope of
this discussion. There have been assumptions this would apply to all l10ns
(https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101442#c29), which isnt
the case. So Im not claiming any authority as a native speaker at all.

(In reply to Luke from comment #17)
> https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/hyperlinks.html

Thanks, that is helpful.

FWIW, whatever the word used for (hyper)links in the end, we should use the
same word everywhere (which we obviously didnt before) and not mix hyperlink
and link as e.g. the pages manual did. So when we use hyperlink as a noun, we
should use it everywhere (same for the use of a 'linking'/'hyperlinking' verb,
even though mixing consistent 'hyperlink' as noun and 'linking' as verb is
fine).

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