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[matttbe <matttbe@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

Sorry, I can't give you the right Norwegian translation but dock may refer
to many things in English but also in French.
I think that the first meaning is the dock for ships but here it's more a
dock in computing (a docking station). But I think that 'dokk' is a good
translation just because it looks like the original word :) . 'Dock' is
maybe a word which is not translatable in a few languages.

BTW, thank you for your help ;)

Matth


2010/6/17 Espen K <djespenk@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> Hi!
>
> Lately I've helped out a little by doing some translation work on your
> excellent cairo dock. And while doing so I've realized that there really is
> a sore need to make a few linguistic decisions on translating some of the
> expressions used in your context. The guidelines in the official guideline
> for Linux translators (generally a very good guide) are simply not suitable
> to translate some key expressions in Cairo.
>
> In particular this applies - typically - to the very word "dock", a word
> often used in your applications hehe!
> A dock in your case is not what the general translation suggest, their
> suggestion applies more to a traditional system tray/toolbar. And it gets
> even worse when we start talking about sub-docks...!
>
> Personally I believe the best norwegian translation would be the word
> "dokk", meaning a dock for ships. I've used that word consistently in my
> translations. However that does not help when translating sub-dock, a
> "sub-dokk" in Norwegian simply makes noe sense whatsoever...
>
> However, I think someone somewhere should just make a decision on what
> translation to use, or else I'm afraid the norwegian version will be
> annoyingly inconsistent...!
>
>
> Kind regards, Espen Krømke
>
>
>
>
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