[Zope3-dev] Re: [German dictionary] removed old terms;
added some new ones
Philipp von Weitershausen
philipp at weitershausen.de
Sun Aug 14 06:15:55 EDT 2005
Christian Theune wrote:
> waiting for some unit tests I saw that mail and went over the terms in
> there. I don't know the state of discussion but I'd prefer some
> different terms:
Thanks for your comments, Christian. I wonder if this is the right place
to discuss. Maybe a comment to the wiki page would have been nicer
because the discussion is then right next to the items that are to be
discussed.
I was also thinking about creating a zope-i18n mailinglist. I will soem
day need to manage the herd of translators that have signed up through
Rosetta. The Launchpad system unfortunately does not provide a way to
spread messages around within a team; one of the few missing features
I've found in that otherwise great system.
> attribut(e) - Attribut (instead of Merkmal)
Agreed. Feel free to change that.
> bundle - Paket (instead of Buendel)
That's one of the words I removed.
> log - (Ereignis)Protokoll (instead of log)
Agreed. In fact, I think that's already used in the actual transation.
> layer - Schicht (instead of Ebene)
"Ebene" ist the one commonly used when translating "layer" in graphics
software such as Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator.
> workflow - Workflow (this is valid in german. Prozess or other
> things don't mean the technical term of workflow)
Ok. I've actually found "Arbeitsabläufe" quite fitting. But you're right
that we sometimes use the word in German. I have no problem with not
translating this word, but then we should ask ourselves whether other
commonly used words should be translated at all:
- skin
- site
- ...
In those cases we'd also have to decide on a gender... die Site, der
Site, das Site?
> Some terms that I'm not satisfied with but really can't find a better
> translation:
>
> dotted name - gepunkteter Name
> skin - Anzeigeform
> site - Webplatz
Heh, interesting. I agree with skin and site, and coincidentally those
are the ones I put up for discussion whether they should be translated
at all or not...
> Typos:
>
> Regist(r)ierung
It's a wiki, feel free to fix :).
> Other things I found:
>
> property versus attribute.
>
> This seems as similar in English as in German. I don't think we
> should use both terms. (Is there a good distinction between those?)
I don't think that there is a big distinction even in English. And since
we don't have one in German (it's all Attribut AFAIK), we shouldn't make
one.
By the way, I've been meaning to write a style guide regarding user
messages and i18n. Because good translations don't start with the
translators. Good translations start with good and meaningful messages
in English and appropriate message ids.
> code -> Code, but: source code -> Quelltext
Are you criticizing this or suggesting to translate like this?
> Just for discussion ... I'll change the (to me) obvious things later if
> no negative feedback arises.
In another email you wrote on Schablone vs. Vorlage:
> Templates are no forms that are filled. They rather act as a kind of
> role model (for which Vorlage is the better word). Additionally
> "Schablone" is intuitively less used than "Vorlage". Also: In other
> software, Office as a bad example, it is called "Vorlage" as well.
You are right about Page Templates being a role model and not forms or
anything. That is exactly why I think Schablone is a better word and not
Vorlage.
Philipp
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