Le 28/01/2015 08:09, Rimas Kudelis a écrit : > > > On 2015 m. sausio 28 d. 08:10:38 EET, jonathon > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 28/01/15 05:18, Rimas Kudelis wrote: >> >>> I really don't see a revision of all existing strings as a >> requirement to start reviewing newly added ones. >> >> At some point in time that review has to be done. To minimize the >> overall workload, it is easier, and simpler, to do it before >> reviewing newly added strings, than afterwards. (For starters, >> doing it afterwards means having to review those newly added >> strings at least twice, and maybe thrice.) > > > You're right, but if the choice is between no reviews at all and > reviews of new strings only, which would you choose? It's go for the > latter. > >>> Especially if you are a native English speaker and have a style >>> guide >> at hand. >> >> Just as the English language has never met it word that it has not >> adopted as it's own, so it has never met a grammatical construct >> that it has not adapted and mutilated. One direct consequence of >> both those facets of acquisition, is that it is incredibly >> difficult to write a sentence in English that is grammatically >> incoherent, but extremely easy to write a sentence that >> grammatically means the opposite of what was intended. >> >> IOW, that certain string might be "clear, concise and >> grammatically, syntactically and typographically correct", but >> mean something other than intended, because the vocabulary is >> usually used to mean something else elsewhere. > > Let's add "semantically correct" or "contextually correct" to my list > of requirements then. :-) > >> BTW, when you say "style guide", which specific one do you mean? > > The one you're looking for, assuming it exists. If not, or could be a > combination of Gnome HIG and any American English style guide we (the > LibO community) would deem acceptable and meeting our needs (e.g. The > Chicago Manual of Style).
I still have the one for French but it's copyrighted Sun anyway (from 2006). Gnome HIG contains a lot of information that we can use easily. Cheers Sophie -- Sophie Gautier [email protected] Tel:+33683901545 Co-founder - Release coordinator The Document Foundation -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/projects/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
