plural forms for counting “composed” numbers: “3 hours, 2 minutes remain(s)”?

2008-10-03 Thread Christian Neumair
Feel free to skim over this message, but just want to know where you can help as a translator with a non-english mother tongue. Your feedback is important for solving the Nautilus translation bug 551222 [1]. 1. Where YOU can help us In your mother tongue, in the sentence

Re: plural forms for counting “composed” numbers: “3 hours, 2 minutes remain(s)”?

2008-10-03 Thread Marcel Telka
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 12:58:46AM +0200, Christian Neumair wrote: > Feel free to skim over this message, but just want to know where you can > help as a translator with a non-english mother tongue. Your feedback is > important for solving the Nautilus translation bug 551222 [1]. > > 1. Where YOU

Re: plural forms for counting “composed” numbers: “3 hours, 2 minutes remain(s)”?

2008-10-03 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 12:58:46AM +0200, Christian Neumair wrote: > In your mother tongue, in the sentence > > “3 hours, 2 minutes remain(s)” > > do you decide which verb form (i.e. plural form) to use for “remain” > based on > > A. the SUM of hours and minutes > B. ONLY the hours > C. ONLY the

Re: plural forms for counting “composed” numbers: “3 hours, 2 minutes remain(s)”?

2008-10-03 Thread F Wolff
On Vr, 2008-10-03 at 00:58 +0200, Christian Neumair wrote: > Feel free to skim over this message, but just want to know where you can > help as a translator with a non-english mother tongue. Your feedback is > important for solving the Nautilus translation bug 551222 [1]. > > 1. Where YOU can help