Re: [GNC-dev] Is ellipsis in Loan Repayment Options intended?

2023-05-12 Thread David T. via gnucash-devel
Boy, does that look painful. Although I understand the intention, the results aren't actually grammatical. There's the comma splice in the title text: "Do you utilize an escrow account, if so an account must be specified..." Then, adding the tail end for the various options results in

Re: [GNC-dev] Is ellipsis in Loan Repayment Options intended?

2023-05-12 Thread BrianHsu
Hi, john, Thanks for the explanation. It's makes sense for me now and really useful to help me improve the translation. Since in our native language we never use this kind of omission, I will change it to something that's more nature in my language. Thanks. john 於 2023年5月13日 週六 上午1:04寫道: > >

[GNC-dev] Is ellipsis in Loan Repayment Options intended?

2023-05-12 Thread BrianHsu
Hi, During the translation, I found that Loan Repayment Options has lots of ellipsis, for example, it displays ...pay "Taxes"? / ... pay "PMI"? as the shown in the attached screenshot. Even the first sentence of that page is "if so an account must be specified...", ends with ellipsis. It's very

Re: [GNC-dev] Is ellipsis in Loan Repayment Options intended?

2023-05-12 Thread john
Brian, The ellipses indicate that the title is finished by each of the choices and the omission of the word "to". It's perhaps not the best usage, but it's valid English and I suppose an attempt to make the assistant feel more conversational that the more conventional title and enumerated