Re: Message from 'git-rebase'; German translation
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Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
- Date
- Sep 23, 2012, 17:29 UTC
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- <alpine.LNX.2.01.1209231924500.3904@nerf07.vanv.qr>
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On Sunday 2012-09-23 17:04, Ralf Thielow wrote:
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>> >> Original: >> ... and I wonder if you are in the middle of another rebase. >> >> German git translation: >> ... und es wäre verwunderlich, wenn ein Neuaufbau bereits im Gange ist. > >We try to avoid translating terms like "I wonder if.." and similar as >"ich wundere mich", because it's very unusual in German messages >of computer programs.
Even "I wonder if" is unusual, since programs normally don't have any personality.
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>Translators should have the freedom to reword
>terms a bit to make a more optimal translation, but the meaning must
>not be lost, and I can't say that this is the case.
>Translate the term "in the middle of" word-by-word would result in
>"in der Mitte eines", which can be interpreted as a place somewhere
>or that an action is in progress. To avoid a possible confusion, we
>decided to translate this term as "im Gange sein" ("be in progress") in
>the whole translation. I also think that "in der Mitte einer Zusammenführung
>sein" doesn't sound really good. It tends to mean a place, not an action.Why not just write
...und es scheint, dass gerade ein Rebase durchgeführt wird.Show 8 quoted lines
>> Original: >> I am stopping in case you still have something valuable there. >> >> German git translation: >> Es wird angehalten, falls bereits etwas Nützliches vorhanden ist. >> >> I wanted to point out that "etwas Nützliches" is more "something useful" that >> "something valuable". But the more I thought about it, the more it started to
In fact, "still" is not "bereits" but "noch". Do I smell somebody fed this through an automatic translation program?
Maybe I should dig up the (real) original .po files and see what I wrote there.