Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Workflow between dev, UX and l10n teams

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On 27/01/15 22:43, Wols Lists wrote:

> Am I right in reading into this, that master is using American English?
> And if so, why? 

The theory is that the master is in American English.
In practice, the master is a bastardization of British English, American
English, and European English. There might be a touch of Indian English
and Japanese English in there as well.

> Surely it would make a lot of sense to state that "Master uses
> international English (ie any well-understood variant), and for local
> consistency en_gb, en_us, en_au etc have to translate it".

That is part of the rational for having en_US as a separate translation.

Let the developers submit strings in whatever version of English they
can utilize, and let the individual teams translate that into their
local patois.

> Bear in mind that most English variants use English spelling, not American spelling.

Thanks to the exports of the US entertainment industry, the syntax and
vocabulary is closer to American English, even though spelling is from
British English.

> If it's clear comprehensible English, whether English or Strine or American or International or 
> whatever, then it's off-limits for changes to master, and has to be done in Pootle or whatever as 
> a localisation.

The identical syntax, vocabulary, and grammatical structure in British
English, American English, and South African English, can have three
radically different meanings, even though it is the same "clear,
comprehensible" sentence in each of those English variants.


jonathon
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