Susana Pereira: > Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. Is this still present? In > what version of Ubuntu does this happen to you?
The use of Esperanto infinitives in use interfaces is not a mistake. It is often debated, even hotly, if it's better to use infinitives or imperatives for "View", "Save", "Open" etc. in program interfaces, and there are good arguments for both styles. I myself beleive strongly that infinitives are better. Often it is quite unclear if the English "View", "Save", "Open" etc. are infinitives or imperatives. They can be understood in both ways. A menu item saying "Open", can be seen as meaning "Click here if you want to open (a file)". But it can also be seen as something that the user "says" to the program when he clicks on that item: "Program, open (a file)!". For me the former interpratation is the most natural and logical. That is why I prefer to translate such cases with infintives in Esperanto. Imperatives are better used only when it's clearly a case of the program (or rather the programmer) telling the user to do something. That is not so with a typical menu item like "Save". Neither the program nor the programmer is telling the user to save anything. It (or he/she) is merely presenting an option, a possibility, that the user can use or ignore as he or she wishes. -- Bertilo Wennergren <http://bertilow.com> -- Wrong usage of infitive case instead of imperative case in verbs - almost everywhere! https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/66223 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
