Re: linker and transition questions...
On Sat, 03 Sep 2005, Steve Langasek wrote:
> #: mmainwindow.cpp:625
> msgid "5 minutes warning"
> msgstr "5 minutos aguardando"
> - "aguardando" means "waiting", not "warning"
Oh dear. And people ask me why I refuse to have LC_MESSAGES set to pt_BR,
even though it is my native language. I would send a lot of hate mail to
any half-assed translator that left his email address behind...
Never mind any translator worth the air he consumes would have tried to find
out when the program outputs such a message to better translate it, since
"Alerta: 5 minutos" is not good portuguese, you really need to know if it is
5 minutes SINCE something happened ("Alerta: já se passaram 5 minutos"), or
5 minutes TO something happening ("Alerta: faltam 5 minutos").
THIS is the reason why I respect so very few translators to pt_BR.
> #: mstatstab.cpp:96
> msgid "Re&fresh"
> msgstr "Re&iniciar"
> - refresh != restart?
"Reiniciar" is directly equivalent to "restart", indeed. The proper pt_BR
translation for "refresh" in computer-related lingo is "atualizar", which is
a direct equivalent to "update".
> #: mschedulertab.cpp:44
> msgid "Registere&d tasks:"
> msgstr "Registra&dor de tarefas:"
> - "Registrador" means something that is used for registering; this could
> be an ok translation in context, I don't know.
It is ugly. A very sloppy translation, indeed. Just the kind I'd expect to
find on MS-Office localized editions to pt_BR. "Registered tasks" is to be
translated to something like "Tarefas registradas:" or "Tarefas elencadas:",
or even something more specific to the particular usage.
AFAIK, "registrador" is only used for computer architecture registers, or
for some machines that keep records (and the only one I can recall is
"máquina registradora" which is those old mechanical calculators used for
point-of-sales.
> #: msettingsdialog.cpp:430
> msgid "C&ustom Message"
> msgstr "Mensagem P&adrão"
> - Padrão means "default", not "custom"...
Yes. This translator should not be allowed close to a po file for some years
while he learns the language properly (which one he is weak at I don't
know), or never (if it is due to sloppyness).
--
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them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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