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

[Carsten K. <car...@ma...>]

Steve,

Vergleichen means "to compare". <http://dict.leo.org/?search=vergleichen>

The abbreviated form "vgl." looks a little odd to me too, but that may 
just be my problem because I'm not very familiar with many german 
abbreviations.

I'm not happy with the word diff either, for the same unix-ish reason as 
you mention. I have already changed the German strings back to diff until 
we come up with something else.

Carsten


On Friday, December 28, 2001, at 04:48  pm, Steve Wainstead wrote:

>
> 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