GNU bug report logs - #17277
improve translator comment

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg <at> justemail.net>

Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 19:39:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

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From: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg <at> justemail.net>
To: Coreutils <bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org>
Subject: improve translator comment
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 21:37:59 +0200

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
Hi,

The translator comment regarding the prompt in remove.c is
unclear, and the suggested alternative way of translation is
hardly any better than the original string.  Looking back in
history, the very first version of this comment was better:
it suggested an alternative that would seem to avoid any
grammatical discrepancies in most languages.  So, attached
patch reinstates that primal alternative, and tries to improve
the surrounding wording to explain the difficulty better.

Benno

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg <at> justemail.net>
Cc: 17277-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17277: improve translator comment
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 23:37:43 +0100

On 04/16/2014 08:37 PM, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The translator comment regarding the prompt in remove.c is
> unclear, and the suggested alternative way of translation is
> hardly any better than the original string.  Looking back in
> history, the very first version of this comment was better:
> it suggested an alternative that would seem to avoid any
> grammatical discrepancies in most languages.  So, attached
> patch reinstates that primal alternative, and tries to improve
> the surrounding wording to explain the difficulty better.

Adjusted the commit summary to:
  doc: improve remove prompt translator comment
and pushed.

thanks!
Pádraig.
bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Thu, 15 May 2014 11:24:04 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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