Well, I gave you few. :)
To find more I would have to proof read all calc formulas and I'm not
really sure I want to do that.
I see a lot of errors of cosmetical type in Calc, which I'm
notreporting. Things like consistency.In some formulas you have nper/
npery / NPER / NPERY , some strings start with capital letter others
don't. Some strings end with dot, others don't. I'm not reporting that
since it isn't affectingfunctionality of program and I would spam this
list all day long. :)
Maybe someone can tackle that in his free time if he things it's worth
fixing, but except cosmetical value nothing will be gained.
Dana 21.7.2013. 12:08, Tom Davies je napisao:
Hi :)
I have encouraged a few native-English speakers to join this list with the aim
of
1. translating from geek or
2. smoothing out clunky English phrases that look like translations from other
languages
However, since they joined there have been no further requests for individual
strings to be re-done in English. We had 'loads' of emails for a month or 2
but then suddenly nothing. Is there somewhere we could look through all the
strings that get translated?
Sadly i didn't manage to get many people to join this time and those that did
do not have a high level of technical skill with the sorts of systems you find
easy. I was hoping that more of the confusing strings would appear in the
mailing list and that the technical side would be handled by the rest of you.
Still, point us in the right direction and be gentle with us and then we/they
might be able to help.
Btw i wasn't clear what was meant by "hermetic" so i looked it up (even though
context made it clear what the person meant by it) and got this from wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermetic
No language is truly hermetic. Even pure maths can be ambiguous. It's part of
the reason we need programming languages and things such as wiki-mark-up to
communicate with machines. However, even they have moments of confusion or
imprecision. We all just try to do a reasonably good job, in the time
available, to make it easier for normal humans to read and we hope that the
people following after us are able to improve on it if they need to.
Regards from
Tom :)
________________________________
From: Krunoslav Šebetić <kruno0...@gmail.com>
To: l10n@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Sunday, 21 July 2013, 9:26
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-l10n] [BUG] Fomula SYD description
On 07/20/2013 06:31 PM, Mirosław Zalewski wrote:
Personally, I favour precise and hermetic language. People who need
certain information will understand; people who don't, they don't care.
That's elitism and is wrong, really wrong.
Precision doesn't mean it has to be hermetic. "People who know how, don't
need help". Don't you find contradictory to write _help_ in hermetic
language? I'm not Calc user, but sometimes I do use it - and help which
doesn't help is worthless.
Bunch of (techno)babble is hard to translate (even impossible
sometimes), and hermetic _help_ can't really help user who is not
skilled in English. If you have something which is hard to translate and
understand in original is something which no one can benefit from.
I know you didn't meant anything wrong, it's just a concern from part
time Calc user.
Sincerely,
Krunoslav
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