"Call" and "Message" translation in Spanish should be verbs

[Kyle Nitzsche]

I was told by a native Spanish speaker that the buttons to launch the dialer app to make a call and to launch the messaging app and send a text message are *nouns* but they should be *verbs*.

Can someone please translate these are comment in this bug when complete?

https://translations.launchpad.net/calls-scope/trunk/+pots/calls/es/+translate?batch=10&show=all&search=Message
* maybe that should be "Enviar sms" or "Mensajear"

https://translations.launchpad.net/calls-scope/trunk/+pots/calls/es/+translate?batch=10&show=all&search=Call
* maybe that should be "Llamar"

Many thanks!

[Víctor R. Ruiz (vrruiz)]

Problem is that we need to differentiate between "To call" -> "Llamar" and "Call" -> Llamada. If the source string is the same for both meanings, chances are that changing the translation will break the meaning somewhere else.

[Kyle Nitzsche (knitzsche)]

That's a very good point. I will see if I can use msgctxt to disambiguate the two cases an report back.

[Kyle Nitzsche (knitzsche)]

After checking, there is no need to disambiguate. [1]

Please go ahead and translate.

"Call" an d"Message" are only used in source as verbs.

[Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb)]

I’m not sure I follow you guys. The translations are verbs already. I saw the translator’s comment and translated those as verbs since the beginning.

Can you attach a screenshot where the nouns are displayed? I don’t have any phone to test.

[David Planella (dpm)]

Note that this potentially affects all languages. I had to correct the Catalan translations too. Not sure if the initial translators did not have the translator comment or if they ignored it.

I also noticed that things like:
- Placed
- Missed

were wrongly translated, and I think such strings would also benefit from a translator comment.

[Leo Arias (elopio)]

Here's an screenshot.

It shows:
Call -> Llamar (verb)
Message -> Mensage (noun), updated by Adolfo Jayme on 2015-06-19 to Mensajear (verb)

So this seems to be fixed already in spanish. Just not released yet. I'm in arale 15.04 r5.

[Leo Arias (elopio)]

oh, and we have

placed -> Realizadas (past participle)
missed -> Perdidas (past participle)

That seems correct to me.

@Kile, I didn't know you speak Spanish. That's great! thanks for your translations.

[Kyle Nitzsche (knitzsche)]

Yo no hablo español, por desgracia

[Yuan-Chen Cheng (ycheng-twn)]

@kyle, it it released in ota6 or not ?

[Kyle Nitzsche (knitzsche)]

I think this was released a while ago.