Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [spetreolle] 69186: [TRANSLATIONS] Translate remaining French strings in msgina.dll

[Pierre Schweitzer]

"Voyez (avec) votre administrateur système" sounds too "spoken"
French.

I'd really be in favour of something more... "written". Consultez,
contactez, whatever.

On 09/14/2015 12:43 PM, Hermès BÉLUSCA - MAÏTO wrote:
>   Hi all !
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>  De : Ros-dev [mailto:[e-mail]] De la part de Sylvain Petreolle
>  Envoyé : lundi 14 septembre 2015 11:36
>  À : ReactOS Development List
>  Objet : Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [spetreolle] 69186: [TRANSLATIONS] Translate remaining
> French strings in msgina.dll
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> >   +    IDS_LOGONUSERDISABLED "Votre compte est
> > désactivé. Voyez votre administrateur système." 
>  
> >   Consultez votre ? 
>  
>  In this case we should change the english line too, unless this is a false friend :
>  
> >   -    IDS_LOGONUSERDISABLED "Your account has
> > been disabled. Please see your system administrator." 
>  
>  Voyez avec votre administrateur système ?
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>  
>  I confirm what Pierre says, in proper french we say « Consultez votre administrateur
> système » ; in english “please see” can be said. I would not say it is a false friend, but
> better proper translation; indeed when you translate from language X to language Y you are
> not obliged to do word-by-word translation if you know that in language Y there is another
> way to say the same thing (eg. If you see “when pigs will fly” you won’t translate by
> “quand les cochons voleront” in French, but instead you’ll say “quand les poules auront
> des dents”).
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>  [...]
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>  Kind regards, 
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>   
>  
>  Sylvain Petreolle
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>  Cheers,
>  
>  Hermès
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>   
>  
>  (and the obligatory :
>  
>  “Sent by my spying MS Outlook” :P)
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>    _____  
>  
>  De : Pierre Schweitzer <pierre(a)reactos.org>
>  À : ros-dev(a)reactos.org 
>  Envoyé le : Vendredi 11 septembre 2015 22h05
>  Objet : Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [spetreolle] 69186: [TRANSLATIONS] Translate remaining
> French strings in msgina.dll
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>  Comments inline.
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>  On 11/09/2015 21:30, spetreolle(a)svn.reactos.org wrote:
> > URL:
> http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos/trunk/reactos/dll/win32/msgina/lang/fr-F…
> <http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos/trunk/reactos/dll/win32/msgina/lang/fr-FR.rc?rev=69186&r1=69185&r2=69186&view=diff>
> &r1=69185&r2=69186&view=diff
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Pierre Schweitzer &lt;pierre(a)reactos.org&gt;
System & Network Administrator
Senior Kernel Developer
ReactOS Deutschland e.V.