The argument for infinitive: "Click here to [open]" I do not entirely accept. The imperative "Open!" might look too charged, too active, too naive, but in Esperanto the imperative also expresses a volative, the aim at realisation. The argument for imperative: "I want that the program [opens]..." / "Click here in order that the program [opens]...". Here "opens" is - not present tense - but 'imperative', translated "malfermu" as it is not a reality, but is aimed to be realized. Just what all menu choices represent.
Other languages can have the same problem; as the Mac had the first GUI it used the imperative, whereas the later Windows started with infinitives, in Dutch. Unfortunately this change does not imply, that people thought about the issue. In fact the Mac designers thought about ergonomical things like Undu-Cut-Copy-Paste keys (symbol glyphs, positioning on US-keyboard etc.). For me infinitive is a partial usage of the language, as opposed the the imperative. But if other languages can live with an infinitive, we can too. Joop Eggen -- Wrong usage of infitive case instead of imperative case in verbs - almost everywhere! https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/66223 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
