On 08.11.18 15:08, Winfried Ritsch wrote:
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.
I disagree, SMS is "Kurznachricht" in German. "Message" is used in German in the sense of "Was soll denn die Message dieser Werbeanzeige sein?" Message is a neologism for Aussage.
I agree with those:
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", ...
I would keep the current translations here.
Also Radioknopf is wrong, since "Radioschalter" but "Radiobutton" is anyway german ( https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Radiobutton )
Very interesting, TIL. I would suggest "Optionsknopf, Auswahlschalter" or something similar. The original Radiobutton where you select the band FM / SW / LW (UKW / KW / LW) is only known to people who had such Radio and this reference is dying out. (At least for German, I don't know this is for English speakers)
Very bad is "Feld" for array and "arbeitsfläche" for canvas, since array is a data type and Arbeitsfläche means Desktop normally
Array: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feld_(Datentyp)
Is Leinwand better for Canvas?
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
It's hard to find a short and sensible Word for this, I think even Media in the oriiginal doesn't fit either. How are the MIDI settings and the Load Meter Media?
The Rest is quite fine, except: "Zusätzliche Objekte im Internet finden", since "Finde Externals" is more correct.
Is it really? Maybe it will just find the externals on my harddrive
BTW: Since I use Pd on multiple languages and multiple computers, sometimes on standard accounts for teaching, I do not change language and don't want to for others, so let us make a better translation.
Could not agree more!
BTW, we could also make a DE-at version if the Austian terms don't match the german ones :)
Max