Re: Re : [libreoffice-l10n] Fwd: Text in UI, we do not understand

13/07/2013 15:32, sgrìobh Tom Davies:
> Hi :)
> Thanks :)  So it's something that doesn't happen in English so there isn't really a good name for 
> it?
Not unless English develops a complex tone system. It's possible of 
course but not in the next 100 years I'd say.
> So in other languages it might be easier to shorten it to something that makes more sense to people?
I guess so. It's the old question of how freely to translate. It's 
technically the name of a code range in Unicode (like Latin 1 or IPA 
Extensions) but I think translating this so it makes sense in to the 
user is more important than sticking to the exact Unicode range name.

> Your original explanation makes a lot of sense;
> "diacritic marks that mark tone in tonal languages, so there's "squiggles" that go above or beside 
> another letter to indicate if it's a high rising tone, a low rising tone, a mid level tone, and so on."
> I know exactly what you mean by that because i have seen such marks in many other languages.  The 
> technically correct and more official line
> "Linguistic symbols for marking tone in tone languages that modify another letter (usually a vowel)"
> still leaves the meaning unclear.  In the 1st line, even though i don't know what "diacritic" means you 
> explain that well by using the word "squiggles" which is much friendlier.  So, i feel i learned something 
> even though the 1st description is still quite short even if it's not short enough.
>
> Thanks and regards from
> Tom :)
You're welcome :)

Michael

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