[Mageia-discuss] Chinese translation for Mageia's page

Thu Sep 23 17:06:49 CEST 2010

在 Thu, 23 Sep 2010 22:02:18 +0800, Fred James  
+<fredjame at fredjame.cnc.net>寫道:
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+
+> In English (at least here in North Central Texas) when referring to a
+> river, a branch and a fork are much the same thing ... either can
+> indicate the dividing of a river in either the upstream or the down
+> stream direction.  But in Unix/Linux a fork usually means that a process
+> (the parent) makes a copy of itself (the child), and then these both
+> continue, possibly on their own but not necessarily (do I understand
+> that correctly?).  If that is so (definition of fork for Linux), is
+> their an appropriate word or phrase (is that the right way to say it?)
+> in Chinese?  Hope that helps.  Hope it isn't too hopelessly off the mark.
+> Regards
+> Fred James
+>
+I had also tried to translate the text. In Chinese there's really no words
+
+match up with the meaning of fork in English. But, I think using the word
+
+branch in Chinese: "分支", would fit in the meaning in the text.
+
+Maybe Funda Wang could use the term?
+