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(about American English in Mageia for British users)</H1> + <B>Marja van Waes</B> + <A HREF="mailto:mageia-discuss%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-discuss%5D%20What%20is%20your%20motivation%3F%20%28about%20American%0A%20English%20in%20Mageia%20for%20British%20users%29&In-Reply-To=%3C500EFAAD.4000907%40xs4all.nl%3E" + TITLE="[Mageia-discuss] What is your motivation? (about American English in Mageia for British users)">marja11 at xs4all.nl + </A><BR> + <I>Tue Jul 24 21:42:37 CEST 2012</I> + <P><UL> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="008312.html">[Mageia-discuss] HP printer not working _fixed +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="008318.html">[Mageia-discuss] What is your motivation? 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About perl +someone told me, that it is a very powerful language and that usually +only the person who wrote a program in it will understand his own lines +of code, *unless* he sees them again years later. In the last case, +he'll look in amazement at some of the lines he wrote himself and wonder +what he wanted to achieve with them. + +Over a year ago, one of our brightest developers spent hours together +with an English proofreader, to correct some sentences in the code of +one or more drak*-programs. He wasn't aware that in doing so, he was +breaking all the translations of the sentences he corrected. So making +the changes you propose isn't as easy as you think. + +The developer of those draktools and of the DVD installer has too little +free time to do all the work that is waiting for him here, so he +focusses on what is most urgent. At the moment, over 130 bugs are +waiting for him to get solved, among them are crashes and other very +serious problems. + +Kind regards, +Marja + + + +On 24/07/2012 13:18, Graham Tarn wrote: +><i> Hello Marja +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I understand and I see the problem of shortage of contributors. +</I>><i> Also I can see that you are doing your best. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> However, my language is under attack from a variety of sources in the +</I>><i> computing world (no other industries try to change the spelling of the +</I>><i> words in my language, only the computing industry, and the problem lies +</I>><i> with operating systems and applications), +</I>><i> +</I>><i> As a start, I am asking for changes of spelling to any of the following +</I>><i> occurrennces: +</I>><i> +</I>><i> center --> centre +</I>><i> initialize --> initialise +</I>><i> favorite --> favourite +</I>><i> favorites --> favourites +</I>><i> color --> colour +</I>><i> colors --> colours +</I>><i> flavor --> flavour +</I>><i> flavors --> flavours +</I>><i> +</I>><i> This is not a long list and it should not need a team . +</I>><i> How many maintainers do you need to change "Center" to "Centre"? +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Kind regards +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Graham +</I>><i> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ +</I>><i> *From:* Marja van Waes <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">marja11 at xs4all.nl</A>> +</I>><i> *To:* Graham Tarn <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">gtarn at yahoo.com</A>> +</I>><i> *Cc:* Oliver Burger <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">oliver.bgr at googlemail.com</A>> +</I>><i> *Sent:* Sunday, July 22, 2012 8:06 PM +</I>><i> *Subject:* Re: What is your motivation? (about American English in +</I>><i> Mageia for British users) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> On 22/07/2012 20:03, Graham Tarn wrote: +</I>><i> > With regard to making British users of Mageia use a Menu in American +</I>><i> > English, which for some young British users, will have adverse +</I>><i> > consequences on their understanding and use of their own language, I +</I>><i> > should be pleased to hear your reasons for doing so and ask you to +</I>><i> > reconsider. +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > See <A HREF="http://parsectraveller.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/mageia-language-bug/">http://parsectraveller.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/mageia-language-bug/</A> +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > Yours sincerely +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > gtarn +</I>><i> +</I>><i> About: bug report: <A HREF="https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6069">https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6069</A> +</I>><i> which was closed as duplicate of +</I>><i> <A HREF="https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1793">https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1793</A> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Hi Graham, +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Mageia is made by volunteers who do this in their spare time. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Of course we would like to make Mageia available in every flavour of +</I>><i> every language on earth. However, there are not only many translators +</I>><i> needed to achieve that, but also packagers and developers, people who +</I>><i> know how to get those translations where they should go, so that you'll +</I>><i> see the correct translation when using your system. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> The real problem is shortage of contributors. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Kind regards, +</I>><i> Marja +</I>><i> +</I>><i> CC: Oliver, the leader of i18n (translators' team) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I> +</PRE> + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="008312.html">[Mageia-discuss] HP printer not working _fixed +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="008318.html">[Mageia-discuss] What is your motivation? 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