Yea, don't get me wrong. If people believe it is better to keep the English terms, that's fine too. :)
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 21 Nov 2013, at 18:40 , Octavian Damiean <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Well, request and response have well known German words too. Those > > translate to Anfrage and Antwort. > > > > Just as the two already mentioned words have a valid and meaningful > > translation, replication and compaction do too. Replizierung and > > Verdichtung. > > > > I can't come up with a translation for view but I'd say if we already > > translate we should translate everything we can if it is meaningful. > > „Ansicht“ maybe. Anfrage and Antwort are good translations, yeah. > Verdichtung I don’t know about. > > In favour of not letting this turn into a major bikeshed, I’ll leave > this to the people who do the actual translation work :) > > Keep it up! > > Jan > -- > > > > > > > > On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Andy Wenk <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I am asking myself how we translate well known english words in the > context > >> of CouchDB. These words are for example: > >> > >> * view > >> * request > >> * response > >> > >> and furthermore > >> > >> * replication > >> * compaction > >> > >> and so on ... > >> > >> In my opinion, we should keep these words and do not translate them. > When > >> we have sth. like > >> > >> "Request the database with the following URL" > >> > >> we could translate it to (in German): > >> > >> "Sende einen Request mit der folgenden URL an die Datenbank" > >> > >> What is your opinion here? When we found a solution, we should do that > in > >> all languages - if possible. > >> > >> Please remember, that there is also the navigation point "Terminology" > >> where we should insert these decisions. > >> > >> Cheers > >> > >> Andy > >> > >> -- > >> Andy Wenk > >> Hamburg - Germany > >> RockIt! > >> > >> http://www.couchdb-buch.de > >> http://www.pg-praxisbuch.de > >> > >> GPG fingerprint: C044 8322 9E12 1483 4FEC 9452 B65D 6BE3 9ED3 9588 > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Octavian Damiean > > > > GitHub: https://github.com/mainerror > > -- Octavian Damiean GitHub: https://github.com/mainerror
