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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    context for adjectives
From:       Eduard Werner <edi.werner () gmx ! de>
Date:       2005-01-28 16:50:55
Message-ID: 200501281752.41966.edi.werner () gmx ! de
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Hi all,

in languages where adjectives agree with the nouns they belong to (Slavic and 
Baltic at least) there is a problem with translating lone adjectives. The 
problem consists of two parts:
1) I don't know if I have to translate "New", whether it will be a new folder, 
new file or new  anything, so I don't know which form to use until I see the 
result. (I just have that problem with the string "Up-to-date" in kbabel.po.)
2) When the same string is taken for several places it's getting impossible to 
get all of the occurrences right because you can pick only one.

Could we - step by step - provide all occurrences of lone adjectives with a 
context containing the noun (or nouns) it belongs to? If there would be 
several nouns like in submenus
 
New -> File 
  Folder
 Anything 

which translate into nouns of different gender in a target language it would 
then be possible to translate the first element as "New Item". But it would 
be very nice to know before you translate.

Cheers

Edi 
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