[Libreoffice] [PUSHED] a few more translations
Lionel Elie Mamane
lionel at mamane.lu
Sun Dec 4 05:51:45 PST 2011
On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 12:14:57AM -0800, Mike Whiteley wrote:
> I respectfully disagree with some of your recommendations.
I can be mistaken. Let's discuss the points where you disagree.
> As long as the basic point is getting across, I think it is probably
> good enough.
Yes, but:
> This will take forever, if we have to be 100% consistent with the
> machine version,
"Machine version"? What are you talking about?
> They are just comments,
> and even then, some of them are poorly worded and ambiguous.
Oh yes, they are, I agree with you there.
> Striving to be 100% consistent with the German comments is not
> always the best way to go about this.
Yes, but when I said "closer to the German", I should have said
"closer to what I guess the code that is commented is. I don't know if
you are a programmer, so that you can make a good guess at the code
organisation, but in this particular point, the meaning of the German
makes - to me - more programming sense than the meaning of the
English."
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Lionel
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