Re: [Gaim-i18n] Fwd: pt_PT translation of "Handshaking"

[Clytie S. <cl...@ri...>]

On 07/04/2006, at 10:12 AM, Maur=C3=ADcio Collares wrote:

> Bacalhauzada makes no sense in Brazilian Portuguese either, but after
> I got a few complaints about this in an earlier version of Gaim, I
> asked a friend who said this is some sort of slang in pt_PT. I don't
> know if this is true.

I've found the safest thing to do, when translating this phrase, is =20
to use whatever means "shaking hands" in normal daily use. (In my =20
language, it literally means "catch the hand": b=E1=BA=AFt tay.)

Would this work for your language? It's a reasonably universal =20
concept: even if you don't actually "shake" the hands, we all clasp =20
hands in friendship in one way or another.

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nh=C3=B3m =
=20
Vi=E1=BB=87t h=C3=B3a ph=E1=BA=A7n m=E1=BB=81m t=E1=BB=B1 do)
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