Hello pyriel, pyriel mandragora schrieb: > At least in Pidgin 2.3.1 the English term "Buddies" in the menu was > translated "Buddys" which is no translation at all imho but it is no > English term either. You are right, it is not a translation, as well as for example "Babys" or "Jobs" are not translations, but German plural forms of English words.
> A translation would be "Freunde" or "Kontakte" etc. No, that's not correct. Both of those words are not translations. While "Freunde" would be a rough equivalent, "Kontakte" is something different. A translation would be for example "Kumpel". There have been discussions in the past wheter to choose the word "Kontakte" or "Freunde" over "Buddys", but Björn and I decided not to choose them because they have a slightly different meaning. Also we agreed not to use the actual translation "Kumpel", because it is already quite a silly word by itself and becomes absolutely ridiculous in terms like "Kumpelliste" (buddy list). > Frankly "Buddys" could be written right next to "Petra's Sofas" (or > worse "Petra's Sofa's") - just another wrongly adopted borrowing. No, you are wrong. "Sofa's" is a wrongly formed plural, "Buddys" is not. And the wrong genitive "Petra's" has nothing to do with this case. Regards, Jochen Kemnade _________________________________________________________________________ In 5 Schritten zur eigenen Homepage. Jetzt Domain sichern und gestalten! Nur 3,99 EUR/Monat! http://www.maildomain.web.de/?mc=021114 _______________________________________________ Translators mailing list [email protected] http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/translators
