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Subject: Re: How to translate well known english words?
From: Jan Lehnardt <jan@apache.org>
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Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 18:36:49 +0100
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Both good points. I can only speak for the German side, but keeping the
original terms makes sense. But if other programming communities are =
used
to full translations (French comes to mind, but I am not sure), we =
should
go with whatever is best for the particular language and culture.

Best
Jan
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On 21 Nov 2013, at 18:16 , Facundo Farias <facundo.farias@gmail.com> =
wrote:

> 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.
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> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Andy Wenk <andy@nms.de> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> I am asking myself how we translate well known english words in the =
context
>> of CouchDB. These words are for example:
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>> * view
>> * request
>> * response
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>> and furthermore
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>> * replication
>> * compaction
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>> and so on ...
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>> In my opinion, we should keep these words and do not translate them. =
When
>> we have sth. like
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>> "Request the database with the following URL"
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>> we could translate it to (in German):
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>> "Sende einen Request mit der folgenden URL an die Datenbank"
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>> What is your opinion here? When we found a solution, we should do =
that in
>> all languages - if possible.
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>> Please remember, that there is also the navigation point =
"Terminology"
>> where we should insert these decisions.
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>> Cheers
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>> Andy
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>> --
>> Andy Wenk
>> Hamburg - Germany
>> RockIt!
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>> http://www.couchdb-buch.de
>> http://www.pg-praxisbuch.de
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