Re: Kudos and nitpicking of german translation of d-i

[Erich.Waelde@t-online.de (Erich Waelde)]

Hi Dennis,


Dennis Stampfer writes:
 > Hey Erich,
 > 
 > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 12:43:04AM +0100, Erich Waelde wrote:
 > > * Set the host name
 > > 
 > >     <nitpicking>
 > >     menu: "Hostname festlegen"  Hm. "Rechnername" maybe? I know a fair
 > >     number of Germans, who claim "host" == "mainframe". I've had
 > >     discussions. So I suggest to use "Rechnername" instead.
 > >     </nitpicking>
 > 
 > Do you want this only for strings like "Set the host name" or for
 > choose-mirror, too? "Geben Sie den Rechnername des Mirrors ein, von
 > dem Debian heruntergeladen ..." sounds not that good to me...
 > 

Only for "set the hostname" (network config). About ``Mirror'' I have not
come to better sounding suggestions. "Spiegel" ?!?! Uh, oh.

Cheers,
Erich