Re: [RFC] l10n: de.po: translate 29 new messages

From: Christian Stimming <stimming@tuhh.de>
Date: Jul 4, 2012, 20:14 UTC
Message-ID: <1819393.sAuVItIfZO@cs-pc>
In-Reply-To: <CAN0XMO+R3+JiuHSZ0O46py2WbXVh8D2Z+f7t_xofsN6ZrFwnQQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Ralf,

Am Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2012, 09:20:40 schrieb Ralf Thielow:

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> >> -msgstr "Du befindest dich auf keinem Zweig."
> >> +msgstr "Du bist gerade beim Neuaufbau."
> > 
> > Is "rebase" = "Neuaufbau"? My last thought on this wording was "rebase"
> > = "Umpflanzen".
> 
> According to the current state of the glossary on GitHub, "rebase" as a
> verb is translated as "neu aufbauen". There are already translations using
> this. For example:
> 
> #: builtin/remote.c:998
> #, c-format
> msgid "rebases onto remote %s"
> msgstr "baut neu auf externen Zweig %s auf"
> 
> In this translation, "rebase" is used as a noun for the very first time.
> So, I simply translate it with "Neuaufbau". In fact, we can use different
> translations for verbs and nouns. Not really sure whether we should do this
> for "rebase".
> 
> Using "Umpflanzen" for "rebase" as a noun, would result in
> msgstr "Du bist gerade beim Umplanzen."
> Using "Umplanzen" was a verb, would result in
> msgstr "Du planzt gerade um."
> 
> For me, "Umpflanzen" sounds a bit like "working with plants
> in the garden". I do not have a strong opinion on this, though.

That's true. The wording goes very far into gardening, which is an argument against it. An argument for it is that it consequently re-uses the tree and branch metaphor, which is indeed also related to gardening.

I thought "neu aufbauen" is probably useful in the context of the gc or fsck command... no strong opinion on this, too, though.

Thanks for the reminder of the glossary - indeed I forgot to check that first.

Regards,

Christian