Bad English in the English translation

Bug #593313 reported by Igor Podolskiy
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Bug Description

There are a lot of warts in the English translation:

1. "The ... information is entire": you mean "complete" (vollständig), not "entire" (ganz, gänzlich)
2. "Protocol", "protocoling": this is a particularly bad "false friend". German "Protokoll" translates to both English "protocol" (as in "network protocol", i.e. something prescribed how parties interact in a process) and to English "log" (which is what you mean). IEEE Std 1028-1997 (Software Reviews) uses the term "anomaly list"; "findings list" would do it too, IMHO.

Note that the term "review protocol" exists on its own and means something like "review procedure", which makes all those "protocols" spread all over RevAger even worse. And the word "protocoling" doesn't even exist... :(
3. Lots of hyphens where they don't belong: "XML-Format", "help-chapter", "online-help", "Review-protocol", "CSV-profile", and so on.
4. Weekday abbreviations: Mo/Tu/We/Tu/Fr/Sa/Su doesn't exist, the names are not even unique. It's Mon/Tue/Wed/Thu/Fri/Sat/Sun.
5. "Preview" month, year: you mean "previous" ;)

I'll provide patches shortly for some of these.

RevAger Version: 1.3RC2

Tags: translation

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tags: added: translation
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Igor Podolskiy (podolsir) wrote :

Another one:

"You are able to ..."... Why so formal? You don't say "Sie sind in der Lage, ... zu tun" in German, either ;)

It's simply "You can ..." ;)

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Igor Podolskiy (podolsir) wrote :

So, here it is. This patch should fix:
* numerous unneeded hyphens
* The "You are able ..." thing
* The entire/complete and weekdays stuff

If you'd rather have them as multiple separated patches or a bzr branch, just drop me a note.

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Davide Casciato (casciade) wrote :

Thank you very much, Igor :)

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Johannes Wettinger (jojow) wrote :

Thanks Igor for your commit! I've just approved your request for the nomination of this bug for the 1.3 series. I think, we will definitely include the patch in 1.3.1.

Regarding the kind of commit: Both a separate bzr branch and a simple patch is fine! Maybe a bzr branch would be better if the changes are more complex, i.e. many files are affected etc.

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status: New → Fix Released
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