Re: [PATCH] Another update of Russian translation

From: Alexander Gavrilov <angavrilov@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 29, 2009, 09:11 UTC
Message-ID: <bb6f213e0904290211y9cf8226gaba31b0f402b2899@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090429072020.GC11076@dpotapov.dyndns.org>

2009/4/29 Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>:

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> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 06:04:48PM +0200, Alex Riesen wrote:
>> Alexander Gavrilov, Tue, Apr 28, 2009 11:22:36 +0200:
>> > 2009/4/27 Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>:
>> > > +#: lib/tools_dlg.tcl:236
>> > > +msgid "(Blue denotes repository-local tools)"
>> > > +msgstr "(Синий указывает на программы только репозитория)"
>> >
>> > Синим выделены программы локальные репозиторию
>>
>> "локальные репозиторию"? Hmmm... Do people write that?
>
> It sounds a bit odd to me... Perhaps, "локальные к репозиторию" is a bit

That phrase is a misuse of a grammatical pattern specific to words like "принадлежащие", "свойственные", etc; that's why it's odd. I'm not sure why exactly I wrote it that way...

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> better, but still it does not sound very well. And there is one more
> thing -- I believe it is better to translate "tools" as "команды" here.
> So, I would say:
>
> "Синим выделены команды определенённые для текущего репозитория"
>
> or shortening this phrase a bit:
>
> "Синим выделены команды текущего репозитория"

This one is correct, but does not mention the local/global distinction. I guess that it is impossible to make a perfect translation of this length :)

Alexander