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List:       kde-doc-english
Subject:    Re: [kde-doc-english]Attn all: Markup Changes
From:       Thomas Diehl <thd () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-01-28 9:10:07
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Am Montag, 28. Januar 2002 10:03 schrieb Frederik Fouvry:
> | > I'd be very much in favor of including some guidelines on this in the
> | > mission statement of the proof reading team.
> |
> | Second thought: Maybe we'd just need something like a (tentative) style
> | guide for writing GUI and doc files which then could be "enforced" by
> | the proof reading team. (If something like this already exists it has
> | not got enough publicity yet.)
>
> I completely agree.
>
> One I recently read about: don't anthropomorphise
> computers.  Which means in practice: don't use error messages
> with "Sorry".  The computer isn't sorry, and it isn't a human
> being.

That's exactly what we are trying to reflect in our translation. (But try 
and explain this to Apple users or even a lot of KDE developers. ;-)

Thomas


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