Sascha Cunz venit, vidit, dixit 22.09.2012 23:57: > As I know how hard translations can be, esp. with that much technical terms > inside, I'm usually expecting _not_ to yield the same result when translating > a software's translation back to English. > > However, git-rebase just threw these two sentences at me (And though i know > their meaning, i couldn't get the meaning from the message, it gave). Both > are > in context of starting a rebase while one is already in progress. > > first is: > > Original: > ... and I wonder if you are in the middle of another rebase. > > German git translation: > ... und es wäre verwunderlich, wenn ein Neuaufbau bereits im Gange ist. > > And a re-translation back to English from my understanding as native German > speaker: > ... and it would be astonishing (=i'd be surprised), if a rebase was already > in progress. > > And second: > > Original: > I am stopping in case you still have something valuable there. > > German git translation: > Es wird angehalten, falls bereits etwas Nützliches vorhanden ist. > > I wanted to point out that "etwas Nützliches" is more "something useful" that > "something valuable". But the more I thought about it, the more it started to > confuse me (even the original text) - and now I feel like I don't understand > the meaning of the last sentence at all; neither in English nor in the German > translation: > After removing the directory with all rebase-information inside it, WHERE > should something valuable still be left over? Is it referring to my working > tree? > > So, for completeness, the full English message: > > It seems that there is already a rebase-merge directory, and > I wonder if you are in the middle of another rebase. If that is the > case, please try > git rebase (--continue | --abort | --skip) > If that is not the case, please > rm -fr "/work/lg2/src/.git/rebase-merge" > and run me again. I am stopping in case you still have something > valuable there. > > Sascha >
Both translations are completely wrong on two accounts: They are a wrong translation of the English original into German (making typical mistakes like "false friends" [wonder != wundern] etc.), and they convey a completely wrong idea about what git is doing and about to do (by translating a message without knowing when and why it is given). Unfortunately, neither comes to me as a surprise. I'm sorry I'm too frustrated by the German l10n community to try to help again (and the ensuing thread just reinforces that feeling), but to end on a positive note let me just point out: 'in case ...' = 'für den Fall dass ...' (attributiv) 'in the case ...' = 'im Fall dass ...' (konditional) Michael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
