Re: [l10n-web] Reminder: Brand names remain unchanged

You don't have to be fluent in 150 language to know that there are 
languages that stick bits on other words. Even if you had no knowledge 
of how languages work, the obvious thing would be to *ask* the 
translators at your disposal if approach X works and if not, why not. 
Between Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian, Basque, Czech and Russian being 
long established locales, surely someone would have pointed out the obvious.

So you implemented a policy without considering what a language like 
Basque for example where <of> or <'s> is expressed by sticking <en> or 
<aren> on the end of the noun is supposed to do when it has to say 
something like "Mozilla's browser"?

Wow. Just wow.

Does the brand team realize this is more restrictive that even 
Microsoft's policy? Microsoft localization allows suffixes as long as 
you don't change the letters of the product name itself, such as

Hae kuvia Microsoftin ClipArt-kokoelmasta. (Finnish)
Microsoft Storen laitesovellus (Finnish)
Wordi automatiseerimisteenused (Estonian)
Skypové jméno (Czech)

and in some cases, even the root may be modified:
Na Skypu (Czech)
Do Chortana (Gaelic)

M

Sgrìobh Jeff Beatty na leanas 22/08/2019 aig 21:57:
> Not being an expert in the intricacies of all languages (who is?), I can't
> speak to what options everyone has at their disposal. I know that the Brand
> team is firm on this policy and despite our multiple attempts to convince
> them otherwise, there's no wiggle room, unfortunately.

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