-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 27/01/15 22:43, Wols Lists wrote:
> Am I right in reading into this, that master is using American English? > And if so, why? The theory is that the master is in American English. In practice, the master is a bastardization of British English, American English, and European English. There might be a touch of Indian English and Japanese English in there as well. > Surely it would make a lot of sense to state that "Master uses > international English (ie any well-understood variant), and for local > consistency en_gb, en_us, en_au etc have to translate it". That is part of the rational for having en_US as a separate translation. Let the developers submit strings in whatever version of English they can utilize, and let the individual teams translate that into their local patois. > Bear in mind that most English variants use English spelling, not American > spelling. Thanks to the exports of the US entertainment industry, the syntax and vocabulary is closer to American English, even though spelling is from British English. > If it's clear comprehensible English, whether English or Strine or American > or International or whatever, then it's off-limits for changes to master, and > has to be done in Pootle or whatever as a localisation. The identical syntax, vocabulary, and grammatical structure in British English, American English, and South African English, can have three radically different meanings, even though it is the same "clear, comprehensible" sentence in each of those English variants. jonathon -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJUyDBRAAoJEKG7hs8nSMR7wt4P/3jSQTKbKG2GtrqEC+T8i5uO LdGogR3lPc/c0UlZYO5plOAfJmRcP4QtWTuKa7RaPnefykkRHD6Si71h4fTn9MhP a+w/A1SmaT/zQrhIbhpFhMvtQipB8rrx6inFOsN4pNbf2Usj/MLHc8on5Zty/yTr dJJz2m5139C+fTtSZmlbH1urOwzfNYyF75zLwukPnTJQOmLhu6oMwql0w6XfNPSB gyrNwUeco554JgtKxf5BQgVwHVfqbPUbIUCSSBG2MV/6wRRQdFkst/xMMA4AkC6n Cq0rOwfZFkm2G7+TFNqSK3bV2N8ajgmZaj4kCiWQZzLNoOD/70eiYrrbeqvAEBvA Yy9xYEcuGlBEVW0jZSiAdoF3YDpzF6cuhIEqiOxQZHNYRpW6ne2m05VaKhTYu2du MmuE3eunjabE4JzcX3IyeD7+zJqNACX2c/k2ABMmlXfwvnJ1usPFaVGrQtQ4XuJ/ 7zoNPphR/C4JeRWUq0ns7RbatCjbkJAX++fGnt43wtWMZtbuE2haRXNJMTzcs/Q2 uIDhzZrNI3/BP8oizUNW0wrMJvRW4P6Jdsj/EPJkLs3Vn8mWYbJ2eRDTIgLvTYgn nmDyPm2/XVwgnj6m7PtzJLNwrgA01bR8Ed3pRGsJ4NHjfU7GxdGqBSH9/GL8Wo4j 9ksVpkMpZpEEY+ROu8Jz =VImi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: design+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted