Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Re: Re: Re: Re: Questions and annotations to guide2

Hi :)
Don't worry about the whole "tempting fate" thing.  I was trying to be humorous.  


Btw Sophie does have a good point about using "must" so often.  If it's easier to translate or in 
cases where it really does mean the thing really does have to be done then it's perfect.  

Still, i think you have solved 3.  

Regards from
Tom :)  




On Sunday, 13 October 2013, 18:35, Thomas Hackert <thackert@nexgo.de> wrote:
 
Hello Tom, *,
On Sonntag, 13. Oktober 2013 19:08 Tom Davies wrote:
> Ahh, good point.  The result from DuckDuckGo (which i also often
> use even when i say i "google it", (just to make sure the MS one
> doesn't become the generic term and then get copyrighted)) does

it is somehow a generic term. Even our "sheriffs of the German 
language (Duden, who publishes dictionaries for the German language, 
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duden) has a verb for "to google" 
in it (see http://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/googeln) ... ;) 
Though I am not sure, how the situation is in other countries ... :(

> make sense and explains my policy of either avoiding it or trying
> to dodge around it.

O.K.

> The link didn't work until i delete the full stop.  I generally
> ignore normal rules of grammar and such-like when handing out url
> or email addresses.    2 lines were a bit dodgy "He shall take
> over his father’s car repair shop in the future." It just looks
> likely to cause problems and is "tempting fate".  If i wrote
> something like that the poor kid would probably get knocked down
> by a double-decker bus within a week and i'd be blaming myself for
> years.

Here I am somehow at a loss, how I should interpret it, sorry ... :( 
What do you mean with the sentence "If I wrote something like that 
the poor kid..."? Why should it "get knocked down by a double-decker 
bus"?

> Also it looks wrong nowadays.  I think now it would be
> more normal to see "will" or "hopes to" but never "shall" and i
> don't really know why not.  Sometimes you just have to try it and
> leave it to other people to correct if there really is any weird
> unknowable problem with it.  The aim is "release early and release
> often" and NOT perfection 100% of the time.  Perfection seems to
> evolve later.

I hope so ... ;)

> Anyway, i think you have solved the problem

Maybe ... ;)

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