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From: Facundo Farias <facundo.farias@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:16:30 -0200
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Subject: Re: How to translate well known english words?
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Agree, I think that this documentation will be used by developers and they
already know what is a "request" or a "response". Good catch!
Facundo.


On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Andy Wenk <andy@nms.de> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am asking myself how we translate well known english words in the context
> of CouchDB. These words are for example:
>
> * view
> * request
> * response
>
> and furthermore
>
> * replication
> * compaction
>
> and so on ...
>
> In my opinion, we should keep these words and do not translate them. When
> we have sth. like
>
> "Request the database with the following URL"
>
> we could translate it to (in German):
>
> "Sende einen Request mit der folgenden URL an die Datenbank"
>
> What is your opinion here? When we found a solution, we should do that in
> all languages - if possible.
>
> Please remember, that there is also the navigation point "Terminology"
> where we should insert these decisions.
>
> Cheers
>
> Andy
>
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