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On Mon, April 6, 2009 10:42 am, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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>>>>>> On Mon, 06 Apr 2009, Rémi Cardona wrote: |
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>>>>> en: The www-plugins category contains plugins for Web browsers. |
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>>>>> de: Die Kategorie www-plugins enthält Plugins für Webbrowser. |
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>>>> fr: Cette catégorie contient des plugins pour navigateurs Web. |
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>>> plugins -> greffons is the official translation. |
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>> If we want to be even more pedantic, we should use "butineur" |
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>> instead of "navigateur" ;) |
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> Assuming that the last two messages are serious, then it will be |
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> (the name of the category should be explicitly included): |
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> fr: La catégorie www-plugins contient des greffons pour butineurs Web. |
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> And I just learned that in German the word should be spelled Plug-in. |
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> (And no, we shouldn't translate "browser" as "Stöberer". ;-) |
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> Ulrich |
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In short: |
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The wonderful "French terminolgy and neologisms committee" (yeah, we have tons |
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of useless committees in France) tries to find a translation for every single |
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english term, like "browser". Sadly, the guys (Linus would've probably said |
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"masturbating monkeys", and he would be right) in the committee have probably |
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never used a computer, so they're totally clueless. This leads to ridiculous |
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random translations like "butineur". In theory it's the official translation, |
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in reality *nobody* uses their terms, except themselves maybe. |
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So, for god's sake, keep the first translation ("plugin pour navigateurs"). |
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Pierre-Yves Rofes |
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