From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 35287@debbugs.gnu.org, "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Subject: bug#35287: dired-do-copy English beef-up
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 22:58:35 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d0lktp84.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <220330ef-516d-46b4-b8e8-c7209f7b7898@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 16 Apr 2019 14:57:45 -0700 (PDT)")
>> > Copy: 11 files
>> > Actually "Copied 11 files" is proper English and doesn't leave us
>> > somewhat worrying...
>>
>> Other messages that use the same operation name:
>>
>> "Copy: 2 of 3 files skipped"
>> "Copy failed for 2 of 3 files"
>>
>> Shouldn't the latter be "Copying failed"?
>> So for every operation three verb forms are needed:
>> "Copy", "Copying", "Copied", correct?
>
> My own advice is to leave it alone.
This is important in light of our efforts for i18n.
> If you want, for "Copy" read "Copy operation" or
> "Operation Copy".
"Operation Copy" is a catchy name.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-17 19:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-15 11:49 bug#35287: dired-do-copy English beef-up 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-04-16 20:35 ` Juri Linkov
2019-04-16 21:57 ` Drew Adams
2019-04-17 19:04 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-04-17 19:58 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2019-04-17 22:53 ` Drew Adams
2019-04-18 10:28 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-04-18 20:59 ` Juri Linkov
2019-04-18 21:10 ` Drew Adams
2019-04-19 2:08 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-04-19 4:33 ` Drew Adams
2019-04-19 13:48 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-04-19 14:28 ` Drew Adams
2019-04-19 15:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-19 15:11 ` Drew Adams
2019-04-19 15:14 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-04-24 20:15 ` Juri Linkov
2019-05-05 19:43 ` Juri Linkov
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