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Re: English/German terminology, git.git's de.po, and pro-git

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Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Date
May 15, 2013, 13:14 UTC
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On Wednesday 2013-05-15 14:27, Jens Lehmann wrote:
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>>
>> While it's spoken Packdatei, the way to actually write it is
>> .pack-Datei or ".pack"-Datei.
>
>I actually had the '-' in there too until I tried to look up "Zip-Datei"
>in the Duden. While I don't get the leading '.' (I cannot remember having
>seen that anywhere, AFAIK the file extensions are always used without the
>dot), I'm not a grammar expert and will be fine either way.

In UNIX-land, extension seemed to always include the dot. In DOS-land, it's without (inherited from VMS too, perhaps?) As such, either way to write it is acceptable.

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>>> extension ".zip" is a "Zipdatei" (known by the Duden)
>> 
>> If that's how Duden specifies it, it's time to call wrong upon Duden.
>
>Go ahead: http://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Zipdatei ;-)

(There seems to be no way to send corrections. Sucks not to be a wiki.) Ah well that explains their cluelessness:

 nach englisch zip file, zu: to zip = (mit dem Reißverschluss) schließen und
 file = Datei

"ZIP-Datei" kommt daher, weil die Erweiterung ZIP/.zip ist, nicht weil da ein symbolischer Reißverschluss zugezogen wird oder ein Programmicon selbiges suggerieren will.

Wir haben ja schließlich auch RAR-Dateien, die deswegen so heißen, weil sie eben .rar als Endung tragen und nicht, weil sie wertvolle Mangelware sind. ;-)

>> Not so strange. We have other words with -tet.
>> bitten -> erbittete -> habe erbittet.
>
>That example was not the best, what about "wenn Du das mergest(?)" (if

Konjugation wie merken, nur Aussprache mit [dʒ] statt [k]-Laut. merge/mergst/mergt/mergen/mergt/mergen/mergte/(habe,hatte) (ge)mergt. Ich sehe da keine Komplikationen.

>you merge that), I cannot really say how to write that correctly (as in
>German we would want to drop the last 'e', right?)
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  1. Thomas RastMay 13, 2013
  2. Jan EngelhardtMay 13, 2013
  3. Jens LehmannMay 13, 2013
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  5. Jan EngelhardtMay 13, 2013
  6. Ralf ThielowMay 14, 2013
  7. Holger Hellmuth (IKS)May 15, 2013
  8. Jens LehmannMay 15, 2013
  9. Jan EngelhardtMay 15, 2013
  10. Jens LehmannMay 15, 2013
  11. Jan EngelhardtMay 15, 2013
  12. Holger Hellmuth (IKS)May 15, 2013
  13. Jan EngelhardtMay 15, 2013
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  15. Holger Hellmuth (IKS)May 16, 2013
  16. Ralf ThielowMay 19, 2013
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  18. Holger HellmuthMay 20, 2013
  19. Ralf ThielowMay 22, 2013
  20. Thomas RastMay 16, 2013
  21. Ralf ThielowMay 19, 2013
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  23. Christian StimmingMay 20, 2013
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  25. Holger Hellmuth (IKS)May 22, 2013
  26. Jan EngelhardtMay 22, 2013
  27. Bernhard R. LinkMay 23, 2013
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  29. Jan EngelhardtJun 16, 2013
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  31. Ralf ThielowMay 13, 2013
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