A note for translators regarding bootloader message

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

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Przemysław Kulczycki wrote on 21/04/08 14:36:
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> I know that we're already behind the translation freeze, but there is
> something that many translators translate wrong.
> In the livecd bootloader, upon entering Try Ubuntu there is a briefly
> displayed string "Loading Linux kernel" which many translators translate
> as "Loading Linux's kernel" (Loading kernel of Linux) which is wrong,
> because Linux doesn't have a kernel, Linux _is the kernel_. So the
> string should be translated to mean "Loading kernel named Linux" rather
> than "Loading kernel of Linux".
>...

Perhaps you could report a bug for adding an explanatory comment in the
source code, immediately after this string. That way the comment will
show up as a note in Launchpad for people translating the string.

Cheers
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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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