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KH <gentoo-user@××××××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> Alan McKinnon schrieb: |
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> > But German is consistent. English is not consistent. |
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> I am not so sure about German being consistent. As a fact often a lot of |
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> information is lost during translation. This is more likely the main |
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> problem. |
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Let me try to be precise: |
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The english language is using a context sensitive semantics, the german language |
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is not. If gettext() based translations are used with Enlish as base lanuage, the |
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need for knowing the exact context us the string use is needed. If you use |
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German as base language, this kind of problems is not present. |
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Jörg |
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EMail:joerg@××××××××××××××××××××××××.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin |
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js@××××××××××××.de (uni) |
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joerg.schilling@××××××××××××××××.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ |
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URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily |
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