[Fedora-trans-ar] glossary issues!

[Munzir Taha]

On Yaum al-Khamees 26 Shawwal 1425 6:27 pm, Mohammad Ghoniem wrote:
> Salâms
>
> Munzir Taha wrote:
> >First name الاسم الفردي
> >
> >Didn't we agree to call it الاسم الأول?
>
> I really don't like this translation. I prefer الاسم الفرديif you have
> no strong feelings about it. :)

I, myself, have heard الاسم الأول many times but have never heard of الاسم 
الفردي before and now I rechecked my ALMAWRID dictionary and could only see 
this translation for first. First != "single". e.g. First name, First class, 
First lady ;)

The good thing here is that we are from different countries and grown in 
different cultures so we want our translation to be as smooth as possible for 
majority of the users. If my reasoning is not convincing, the other opinions 
here would solve this issue. We will follow the majority.

Hey! All of you over there tell us your opinion regarding this translation! 
Please!

> Another observation that one may have would concern the translation of
> whole expressions and phrases such as "as you type" or "Confined
> Services". I feel these phrases are not technical (it is plain English)

Confined services is technical WANUS ;)

> and should not appear in the glossary. Right ?

I will state my opinion here and would like to hear from all of you. The 
glossary is mainly to help us translate Fedora in a systematic and correct 
way. If a word or phrase appeared on Fedora and some translated it in a 
strange/incorrect way, we need to mention it on the glossary. It's not a 
matter of technical or not technical as much as it's a matter of easy or 
difficult. Help, default, ... are not technical but if we didn't mention them 
you would find various translations for the same word which will render 
Fedora translation inconsistent at the end. For example, some would translate 
Help as مساعدة others as تعليمات others as التعليمات another example which you 
find in Windows they sometimes translate Recycle bin as سلة المهملات and 
other times as سلة المحذوفات and at the end you will end up with confused 
users.


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