Developers of Sympa

[David Verdin <address@concealed>]

Hi Roger,

Yes, we would love to see the quality of English in Sympa improved! We 
know too much how our "globish" must hurt English readers eyes...
The best way to do it is to modify the internationalization catalogue 
for English. And yes, it is a catalogue that translates from English to 
English.
Indeed, the English character strings are written in the code and are 
thus used as keys for the other translations. Modifying them would then 
invalidate their translations for all the other languages.

That's why we use a catalogue to fix pure English problems.

You can download the catalogue here: 
http://pootle.sympa.org/en_US/sympa/sympa-en_US.zip. The file to modify 
is sympa.po.

Once you're done translating in correct English, you can send us the 
result, we'll integrate it to the next Sympa release.

You can also translate directly in our online translation tool: 
http://pootle.sympa.org/

Thanks for your help!

Regards,

David

Le 07/02/2010 03:00, Roger B.A. Klorese a écrit :
> You guys have done a wonderful job of building an English interface, 
> but there are a lot of idiomatic issues that we would like to 
> address.  Are you interested in getting these suggestions over the 
> next month or so, and what is the best way to submit them?
>
> (For example, English is delightfully inconsistent in its use of 
> plural and collective nouns.  And, btw, American and UK English don't 
> always agree.  We would not have "mailing lists server" -- we would 
> have a "mailing list server." And "information" is always a singular, 
> collective noun -- one fact is information, and a thousand facts are 
> information.)

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David Verdin
Comité réseau des universités