Re: Poor Translators

>Howdy folks,
>
>This relates to PSL more than Back-End.
>
>I'm getting some Back-End code translated into Russian by a sf
>volunteer.  However the guy translating it asked me about the
>translation for:
>	"Something broke, I'm not sure what though??"
>
>Which is from class/locale/en.php (a psl file)

:-)

>I just had two points about this.
>
>1) I don't think the phrase is being used any more as it only seems to
>occur in the locale directory (I updated my CVS version & grepped but
>didn't find it anywhere else).  This line should be nixed!

Getting rid of these phrases does improve things... we should do just that 
and use a more generic term (as you suggested).

>2) It never really occurred to me before (as a unilingual English
>speaking North American), but using slang or casual language like the
>phrase above must be a pain for folks to translate into German, Spanish,
>Dutch, Norwegian, etc...  As Open Source code matures it is important to
>use language like "Unknown Error" which although it is much more boring
>is way easier to translate and understand.

As the Spanish translator, I can add that it's always better to use strings 
like:
"This whatever %s, something else". So that we can use the %s to better 
translate those strings -- as they do in other projects...


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