From: Paolo Teti <paolo.teti@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:00:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Initial Italian translation of git-gui.pot
Message-ID: <34a7ae040707230200n6d3f839ua10bf38740d4fe3c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4d8e3fd30707221530v46989d88mcc65cacbc66a4e1c@mail.gmail.com>

2007/7/23, Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>:
> On 7/23/07, Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 7/23/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > Forse "parte" e troppo generale per dire "hunk"?
> > >
> >
> > There are some words that in my opinion it would be better do not
> > translate but to leave in english, expecially on computer stuff
> > italian people it's already used to the original english word.
>
> Agree. We just have to agree on which words keep in English.

I'm not in love with translation of 'programming tools', but is better
to keep in English
at least words like: 'Commit', 'Reset', 'Merge', 'Commit Message' and 'Hunk'

Also is better to avoid adding context or extra words during translation .

For example in translation like "Rescan" to "Riesamina il database" the word
"database" is superfluous.

"Rescan"-> "Riesamina".. is ok

Is like the typical menu item File -> Save.. The word 'Save' has a
precise context and is
superfluous to traslate it as "Salva File" (that sound like "File ->
Save File").

Paolo