Re: [Gaim-i18n] Re: Bad language in Gaim

[Sean E. <sea...@gm...>]

On 4/25/06, Ambrose LI <ac...@ad...> wrote:
> In any case, these strings are not the most problematic I've seen in
> gaim. There are some strings that are much worse, ones that I do not
> understand after asking in #gaim, searching in Google, even reading
> the standards; in contrast, many of these strings in the survey are
> either obvious jokes or simple jargon.

There seem to be three issues here:
A particular string is offensive when translated literally - don't
translate it literally. Clearly, the developer was being creative when
he wrote the string; be creative when you translate it.

A particular string is "unprofessional" - We wear our
unprofessionalism as a badge.

A particular string is unclear, ambiguous, poorly phrased, inaccruate,
etc. - Real usability problems should be addressed, but I don't see
any in this thread.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mozilla_Firefox#Delicious_delicacie=
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-s.