[Ubuntu-l10n-eng] Word substitution table

[Jeff Bailes]

On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 17:06 +0100, Ben Goodger wrote:

> On 24/07/06, Ben Goodger <goodgerster at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>         On 24/07/06, Sridhar Dhanapalan <sridhar at dhanapalan.com>
>         wrote:
>         
>                 Most en-US to en-GB translation work involves making
>                 simple word
>                 substitutions. This is quite laborious work, and would
>                 probably be best done
>                 with a script of some kind. To this end, I have
>                 initiated a table of word 
>                 substitutions:
>                 
>                   https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EnglishTranslation/WordSubstitution
>         
>         Hooray.
>         Can we be sure that such a system will not be flawless?
>         Certainly it will cut down the work, but we can't just run
>         everything through this script and say "that's it, it's
>         done". 
>         
>         
>         Note also the differences in slang which are difficult to pick
>         up, capitalisations, etc...
>         This is a step forward, but by no means is it an end.
>         Personally, I wouldn't bother with it when Firefox 2.0 comes
>         out, with its integrated spelling checker - it will make it
>         easier to spot "initialize" at any rate.
> 
> Oh, and "fetus" is the correct spelling in Commonwealth English now,
> due to our everso-wonderful government. Annoying, isn't it... 


The only Problem with that is if there is a command line option eg.
'--color' the script would change that the '--colour' and people would
wonder why it didn't work

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