RE: [PHP-DOC] Please - Simple is better

2003-08-19 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 19 August 2003 00:35, Hafid wrote: > Hi > > > These are extremely simple examples of English, and should not be > > in the least difficult to understand. I have to say that, in my > > opinion, if you cannot easily follow the meaning of these, your > > understanding of English must be extremel

Re: [PHP-DOC] Please - Simple is better

2003-08-19 Thread Derick Rethans
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Steph wrote: > - Steph (who had to ask what 'void' meant 2 years ago). It doesn't mean anything, well, actually, it does mean something, it means nothing. (Now that was confusing eh? :) Derick -- "Interpreting what the GPL actually means is a job best left to those

Re: [PHP-DOC] Please - Simple is better

2003-08-18 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 18:13, Hafid wrote: > Thanks a lot Lars. > > It is helpful. Now I would like to ask you, please, what would you do with > these two senteces and phrase? > > /* stat a wrapped stream */ > /* stat a URL */ > struct stat > > > > The problem is in stat It's fairly commo

Re: [PHP-DOC] Please - Simple is better

2003-08-18 Thread Steph
had to ask what 'void' meant 2 years ago). - Original Message - From: "Hafid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 11:07 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DOC] Please - Simple is better > Thank you a lot for your answer Lars >

Re: [PHP-DOC] Please - Simple is better

2003-08-18 Thread Hafid
Thanks a lot Lars. It is helpful. Now I would like to ask you, please, what would you do with these two senteces and phrase? /* stat a wrapped stream */ /* stat a URL */ struct stat The problem is in stat Derick told me [It was just a generally used computer science concept; he doubt it

Re: [PHP-DOC] Please - Simple is better

2003-08-18 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 16:07, Hafid wrote: > Thank you a lot for your answer Lars > > > > You don't need to translate them word-for-word; it's more important to > > get the meaning across, and if you have to modify it to make it make > > sense in another language, go ahead. > > I try to translate

Re: [PHP-DOC] Please - Simple is better

2003-08-18 Thread Hafid
Hi > These are extremely simple examples of English, and should not be in the > least difficult to understand. I have to say that, in my opinion, if you > cannot easily follow the meaning of these, your understanding of English > must be extremely basic, and certainly not up to the job of transla

Re: [PHP-DOC] Please - Simple is better

2003-08-18 Thread Hafid
Thank you a lot for your answer Lars > You don't need to translate them word-for-word; it's more important to > get the meaning across, and if you have to modify it to make it make > sense in another language, go ahead. I try to translate having in mind to do it with the most respect to the orig

RE: [PHP-DOC] Please - Simple is better

2003-08-18 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 16 August 2003 02:38, Hafid wrote: > Hi, > I want to make some remarks concerning the PHP Documentation > but I'm afraid to make someone angry. These remarks are > based on my efforts to translate the documentation. I also remarked > that the same problems were lived by other translation groups

Re: [PHP-DOC] Please - Simple is better

2003-08-16 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 18:37, Hafid wrote: > Hi, > I want to make some remarks concerning the PHP Documentation > but I'm afraid to make someone angry. These remarks are > based on my efforts to translate the documentation. I also remarked that the > same problems were lived by other translation gro

Re: [PHP-DOC] Please - Simple is better

2003-08-15 Thread Gabor Hojtsy
I want to make some remarks concerning the PHP Documentation but I'm afraid to make someone angry. These remarks are based on my efforts to translate the documentation. I also remarked that the same problems were lived by other translation groups but I don't know if they did the above remarks. So f

[PHP-DOC] Please - Simple is better

2003-08-15 Thread Hafid
Hi, I want to make some remarks concerning the PHP Documentation but I'm afraid to make someone angry. These remarks are based on my efforts to translate the documentation. I also remarked that the same problems were lived by other translation groups but I don't know if they did the above remarks.