[Phpwiki-talk] the words 'diff' and "Vergleichen"

[Steve W. <sw...@pa...>]

I've never been happy with the word 'diff' because it's a Unix tool, and
about 0.000001% of the world's population knows that. For the common user
the word has no meaning.

But I've yet to think of a suitable replacement. The word is nice and
small. 'CompareToPreviousVersion' is too clunky. Still, I suppose meaning
over brevity should be the rule. What's the literal translation of
Vergleichen?

~swain

On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Carsten Klapp wrote:

>
> Thanks Reini,
>
> I appreciate this great feedback because my German grammar and vocabulary
> is a little weak, especially when it comes to computers. (Hah, I was
> surprised the first time I read about "Speicher" in a German computer
> magazine.)
>
> I have no problems with your alterations. I have some time now to make th=
e
> changes, or you could do them yourself.
>
> The Anmelden/Ausmelden I had borrowed from yahoo.de. I've also seen the
> word 'Link' und 'Links' elsewhere on the Internet used untranslated, and
> also if there already is a WikiPrecedent (so to speak) for leaving
> BackLinks untranslated then I agree, let's stick with that.
>
> How do you feel about using Vergleichen for diff? This one I really wasn'=
t
> sure whether to translate, and then I thought of "=C4pfel mit Birnen
> vergleichen". The abbreviated form (vgl.) also seems a little strange to
> me, but it is the correct abbreviated form according to
> <http://dict.leo.org>.
>
>
> (Also of interest, apparently operating systems like Mac and Windows each
> use different German words for things like buttons, checkboxes etc. but I
> don't know any specific examples.)
>
> Carsten
>
> On Thursday, December 27, 2001, at 04:11  am, Reini Urban wrote:
>
> > Carsten Klapp schrieb:
> >> ! #: ../templates/browse.html:96
> >>   msgid "SignOut"
> >>   msgstr "Ausmelden"
> >> ! #: ../templates/browse.html:98 ../templates/editpage.html:72
> >>   msgid "SignIn"
> >>   msgstr "Anmelden"
> >> ! #: ../lib/plugin/BackLinks.php:9 ../templates/editpage.html:24
> >>   msgid "BackLinks"
> >>   msgstr "Querverbindungen"
> >
> > I don't like these translations.
> > First the words, second the words should be apparent phpwiki pages.
> > (MagicPages in my lingo: Pages associated with certain actions)
> >
> > my suggestions:
> >
> > SignOut:   AbMelden
> > SignIn:    AnMelden
> >
> > BackLinks: BackLinks
> > "All pages which have links to this page".
> > This should be left untranslated imho.
> > See the german DseWiki
> > http://www.wikiservice.at/dse/wiki.cgi?BackLinkFunktion
> > which also left it untranslated.
> >
> > "QuerVerbindungen" denotes a parallel link, something like
> > RelatedPages or LikePages or NearestPages.
> > "R=FCckVerbindungen" is horrible.
> > --
> > Reini Urban
> > http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/
> >
>
>
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