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Subject:    Re: New app name : KName or KNames ?
From:       "INFOMATIK" <info () matik ! com ! br>
Date:       2003-12-27 21:17:59
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In this case I believe it may not be the best way because basket is a too
general expression. That will later give up problems in certain languages ...

In portuguese you say basket is "o cesto" but in pt-br it is not so this could
certainly be misunderstood because basket here would be definitly a ball game
and nothing else
I often saw underskilled people not using applications only for not knowing
what it's name means or even not liking it

In case of noatun of course, a real alian word, it normally could be used even
in china without causing any confusion ...



Casey Allen Shobe (cshobe@softhome.net) wrote*:
>
> Rui Malheiro (Friday 26 December 2003 22:56)
> > Well, when you refer to the aplication "Basket", it's a proper name so you
> > refer to it simply as "Basket", as in "You can use Basket to...". However
> > if you refer to the object "basket" you say "a basket", as in "You can use
> > a basket to...". I don't think it will be confusing in english. I'm not so
> > sure about the translations though. In portuguese, the two examples above
> > would translate to something like "Podes usar o Cesto para..." e "Podes
> > usar um cesto para...". Food for thought, I guess...
>
> In Portuguese, the first example would be "Podes usar o Basket para...".
> Application names do not get translated, only program descriptions.
>
> Take for example Noatun (I know I used it as an example already), which is
> Norse; or Unsermake or Meinproc, which are both combinations of German and
> English.

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