Markus:
Now that you mention it, the French word in the script file
SMW_LanguageFr.php for "Property" is "Attribut." And yet I suspect that
what the French mean by the word /propriété/ is /something belonging to
another/ and not something that characterizes another--a thing
possessed, not a thing that describes. In short, /propriété/ is a "false
friend"--a word that looks like a cognate word but is not. I recommend
that the word /attribut/ remain.
Have you an active maintainer for the French language file? If not, and
until you can sign on a native French speaker and writer, I can maintain
it. I had enough French in high school so that when I entered university
I won the right to take an advanced writing-and-speaking course. I am
also the chief--actually, the sole--translator of articles on our own
wiki from English into French.
Temlakos
Markus Krötzsch wrote:
> On Dienstag, 4. März 2008, Javier Bezos wrote:
>
>> I've noticed the Spanish strings are only partially translated,
>> with obsolete names (eg, atributo instead of propiedad) and with
>> many syntactical mistakes. Is it currently maintained? If not, I
>> can contribute by translating them.
>>
>>
>
> Indeed I think that there is no active maintainer for Spanish, and your help
> is appreciated (you can send the completed file to me and I will check it
> in). Regarding the choice of words ("atributo" vs. "propiedad") you may do as
> you like. Translations need not be literal (e.g. in German I also
> use "Attribut" for "Property" since the literal translation of "Property"
> sounded less natural). Just if you change (already translated) Namespaces or
> Datatype labels, you should possibly add the old versions as aliases so that
> links in existing wikis do not break.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Markus
>
>
>
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