Re: barking dogs and i18n
If it is a very small dog, yap! might work or even yip.
On 31 Dec 1997, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
> Franklin is writing pop3-biff.el. Of course, it is only appropriate
> to have this thing bark. Now, barking in English is easy: "woof!"
> will do just fine. But nowadays, some i18n is called for. So I told
> him that "wau!" (or "wuff!") would be good German barks.
>
> But what about other ones? Surely people on this list can help?
>
> I think Klingon and Esperanto as well as maybe Swahili are very
> important in order not to alienate a significant user population!
>
> PS: Franklin, I hope you didn't mind me posting here.
>
> tia,
> kai
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