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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Zhu Zihao <all_but_last@163.com>
Subject: Re: Word order in Guix l10n
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 16:04:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ft43b1g6.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A1ED1354-1287-481E-B879-E4765F57D07A@lepiller.eu> (Julien Lepiller's message of "Tue, 15 Dec 2020 07:25:41 -0500")

Hi!

Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> skribis:

> Even when translating to French, I sometimes feel the need to change
> word order, but I end up finding a slightly unnatural way to preserve
> the order of arguments. I don't have an example at hand though.
>
> I don't know enough about guile to know how best to implement that (or
> if that exists already).

This looks like a real issue.  I’m surprised this isn’t already
addressed though: after all, ‘printf’ format strings have the same
problem, right?  How does everyone else deal with that?

Thanks,
Ludo’.


  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-18 15:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-15 10:53 Word order in Guix l10n Zhu Zihao
2020-12-15 12:25 ` Julien Lepiller
2020-12-18 15:04   ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2020-12-18 18:03     ` Arun Isaac
2020-12-22 15:00       ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-12-22 15:06         ` Julien Lepiller
2020-12-23 12:22           ` Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas
2020-12-27 22:13             ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-12-22 15:45         ` Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas
2020-12-15 13:11 ` Arun Isaac
2020-12-15 13:51   ` Zhu Zihao

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