Translation of the word "Dash"
Hannie
lafeber-dumoleyn2 at zonnet.nl
Sun May 22 15:28:50 UTC 2011
Hello Andrej,
Thank you very much for your reaction. It will help when we have to make
a decision.
Hannie
Op 22-05-11 16:19, Andrej Znidarsic schreef:
> In Slovenian language team we translate something which could be
> translated something like "overview board" (since it gives you
> overview over everything on the system).
> I think it's a good solution in our case, since "Dash" sounds too strange.
>
> We tend to translate most english terms (in case they cannot be used
> in Slovenian), but we have some exceptions, such as applet which we
> don't translate (since we haven't figured out a short Slovenian
> replacement yet).
>
> regards
>
> Andrej
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> On the Dutch forum we started a discussion about the translation
> of the
> word "Dash". There have been many reactions. I am wondering what other
> translation teams think of this.
> In short, there are two options:
> 1. do not translate it
> 2. find a new word for "Dash" that describes best what it is. Some
> suggestions are: startmenu, dashboard (which is an accepted word in
> Dutch), snelstartmenu (= quick start).
> Hannie
> Ubuntu Dutch Translators
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