On Thursday 06 June 2002 8:17 am, Thomas Diehl wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 5. Juni 2002 20:15 schrieb Pam R: > > I just came across this story, well worth a read if you are a > > documentation editor or translator. > > > > > > http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52901,00.html > > This was about what I meant when I said "we should not level out our > cultural differences" (eg > http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-i18n-doc&m=101981377001422&w=2) > > OTOH, I think we _could_ agree on some basic style requirements and a > consistent terminology (eg in the infamous folder <-> directory thing) and > apply this to existing and upcoming KDE texts. Unfortunately, this is > always only "considered" but nobody of the native speakers seems to be > prepared to actually pick it up and _do_ it so far.
As someone who speaks native fairly fluently I'm willing to have a try at doing this. Looking around to see what has been done so far in this area I found that the web page http://i18n.kde.org/doc/content.html referred to in Thomas' post to kde-i18n-doc (link above) has vanished, and the 'KDE Style Guide' link in http://i18n.kde.org/doc/index-script.php (http://i18n.kde.org/doc/style-guide/index.html) doesn't work either... and I believe that Lauri has gone on holiday? If anyone has copies of these 2 web pages or knows what urls they are hiding at could they please let me know. Pam
