Re: fichero vs. archivo
Hello Javier,
Am Mi., 14. Okt. 2020 um 07:53 Uhr schrieb Javier Fernandez-Sanguino
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> El mar., 13 oct. 2020 13:06, Mario Blättermann <mario.blaettermann@gmail.com> escribió:
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>> Hello,
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>> in manpages-l10n, I've recently changed all occurrences of »fichero«
>> to »archivo«. It was simple using some sed commands and can be easily
>> reverted, if needed. The reason was that Marcos Fouces had changed it
>> in his first update of an existing man page translation. Don't bear
>> with me if this topic already has been discussed anywhere in the past.
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> Yes, it has been. They are synonyms. I would preferred you had run this through the list before changing all instances.
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Will do this next time such questions arise.
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>> Shouldn't this be unified anyway...? Especially the UI translation of
>> GNU coreutils, where the current translations in manpages-l10n come
>> from, even shows such a different view, but with a clear lead for
>> »fichero«:
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> This is just biased. Some translators use more often one or the other. But readers understand both.
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>> As a non-spanish speaker, I don't care if »fichero« or »archivo« is
>> better. But you should decide whether the one or the other should be
>> used all around.
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> In language there is no "better". Spanish is right enough that multiple words can be used. Please also consider we have many localisations of Spanish due to the spread of the languages. For translations in Spanish we should aim for generic translations.
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Yes, of course, that's what we also try to achieve in German to avoid
confusing the users. A similar case is »directory« and »folder«. In
fact, it's the same object in a filesystem, but in GUI apps,
»directory« is less common than »folder«, and in contrast, command
line apps use very rarely »folder« and prefer »directory« instead.
That's why it is hard to find a generic translation (at least in
German).
> Would it be possible for you to revert the changes you did? I would prefer the translators working on this project to take the decision to unify (or not).
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OK, done. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Best Regards,
Mario
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