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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    RE: Bug Report or Bugreport
From:       "Erik K. Pedersen" <erik () bgm-24-95-135-5 ! stny ! rr ! com>
Date:       2001-04-30 13:33:07
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On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Thomas Diehl wrote:
> This is up to the native speakers to decide I guess. I know, however,
> that esp. German developers/writers are very prone to this kind of
> error. German is notorious for its compounds (one of my favorites is
> "Zeichenkettenersetzungswoerterbuch" for "string translation
> dictonary").
>
> How about creating an extra list for style, grammar, and spelling
> issues? I think we'd need a team of native speakers and interested
> people who concentrate on these issues, do the proofreading of GUI and
> doc files and who enforce consistency.
>
> Regards,
>
> Thomas
>

Having spent some time translating doc-po files recently, it is actually
an amazing difference to translating po-files, mainly I believe, because
the original authors know English well. So I support the notion that there
should be somebody to help the developers with their strings.

Erik

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