Re: kernel: updated French translation

[Laurent Vromman]

There are a few mistakes in your translations :

The right translation for "Overflow" is "Dépassement", not "Dépacement"

You often use the word "Mauvais" as a translation for "Bad". Sometimes, 
it could be better not to translate literally. For example, I think 
"Niveau de pilote incorrect" is a better translation for "Bad driver 
level" than "Mauvais niveau de pilote". You should try to avoid 
"Mauvais" anytime you can.

Last thing : I'm not sure "Sémaphore" is a female word in french : 
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9maphore_(informatique)

Laurent

Jonathan Ernst wrote:
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kernel: updated French translation

[Kornél Pál]

Hi,

Laurent Vromman wrote:
> You often use the word "Mauvais" as a translation for "Bad". Sometimes, 
> it could be better not to translate literally. For example, I think 
> "Niveau de pilote incorrect" is a better translation for "Bad driver 
> level" than "Mauvais niveau de pilote". You should try to avoid 
> "Mauvais" anytime you can.

I think that using "bad" should be avoided in English texts as well and 
the original English version should also be improved not just the French 
one.

Kornél

kernel: updated French translation

[James McKenzie]

Kornél Pál wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Laurent Vromman wrote:
> > You often use the word "Mauvais" as a translation for "Bad". Sometimes, 
> > it could be better not to translate literally. For example, I think 
> > "Niveau de pilote incorrect" is a better translation for "Bad driver 
> > level" than "Mauvais niveau de pilote". You should try to avoid 
> > "Mauvais" anytime you can.
>
> I think that using "bad" should be avoided in English texts as well and 
> the original English version should also be improved not just the French 
> one.

Kornél:

I agree with this.  The word in English 'bad' has many meanings.  
Improper, poor, broken are better words:

An improper response was received.
The program functions poorly.
The pipe is broken.  The program breaks (a form of broken) when you 
attempt to do that.  (Better than it is a bad program.)

The 'bad program driver level' could be replaced with 'Please install a 
driver with the appropriate level.  Your driver level is: xx.xx.xx'
It is a little wordy but gets the point across.

James McKenzie

kernel: updated French translation

[Jonathan Ernst]

Hello, 

Please use "reply to all" when replying to this mailing list messages.

Le samedi 07 juin 2008 à 10:53 +0200, Laurent Vromman a écrit :
> There are a few mistakes in your translations :
>
> The right translation for "Overflow" is "Dépassement", not "Dépacement"

Thanks for catching this, I must have been tired this morning.
> You often use the word "Mauvais" as a translation for "Bad". Sometimes, 
> it could be better not to translate literally. For example, I think 
> "Niveau de pilote incorrect" is a better translation for "Bad driver 
> level" than "Mauvais niveau de pilote". You should try to avoid 
> "Mauvais" anytime you can.

Fixed in the new patch.
> Last thing : I'm not sure "Sémaphore" is a female word in french : 
> http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9maphore_(informatique)

Fixed too, thanks.

Regards.