Hi, Thanks for coming up with this theme.
Yes some terms are very confusing, So lets start now real discussion about this. My main issues:
main menu:
File message... : "Pd-Nachricht senden" is missleading, Pd-Nachricht is not a term which could be found anywhere, better "Message senden..."
I think message should be "message" since SMS every german speaker
knows what a message is.
Preferences -> Startup: Voreinstellungen->Bibliotheken & Startprozess It is to long, even not the same than in english I would translate "Startoptionen"
Edit -> Paste replace: Bearbeiten -> Objekte ersetzen I think "Ersetzen" is enough" although in english objects are not mentioned Find -> find again : "Finde nochmal" better "erneut finden", because we do not want to find "nochmal"
Put -> ... I would take the english names, since they are names of functions and not some action advice: "Object" "message" "number" "symbol" "comment", ...
Also Radioknopf is wrong, since "Radioschalter" but "Radiobutton" is anyway german ( https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Radiobutton )
Very bad is "Feld" for array and "arbeitsfläche" for canvas, since array is a data type and Arbeitsfläche means Desktop normally
media -> Medien: wrong since Medien in german means "media content" and we switch DSP on/of there tests and settings, so I think its not even media in english, more like "System" or Interfaces
The Rest is quite fine, except: "Zusätzliche Objekte im Internet finden", since "Finde Externals" is more correct.
mfg winfried
BTW: Since I use Pd on multiple languages and multiple computers, sometimes on standard accounts for teaching, I do not change language and dont want to for others, so let us make a better translation.
Am Dienstag, 6. November 2018, 13:15:06 CET schrieb Peter P.:
Hi list,
looking at a german translation of Pd right now I am wondering if it makes sense to translate technical terms such as object, message, into their german-dictionary-counterparts. I find it counter-intuitive to be using, like most others, the english words object and messag in german but having these a bit awkward translations in the pulldown menus.
Does anyone else have an oppinion on this? Thanks!
Peter
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