Re: Mozilla Translation Status + some terms

["Ayman Hourieh" <ayman dot lists at gmail dot com>]

On 9/24/06, Nawwar Kabbani <kabbani2 at scs-net dot org> wrote:
> Salam,
>
> Just wanted to inform you that I've finished messenger-mapi,
> messenger-offline, and mozapps all under thunderbird/mail/chrome.

Salam,

Great work! I've just emailed the admin list asking Core to speed up
your application[1], let's hope they respond fast so you can commit
the files yourself :)

> Currently working on
> thunderbird/mail/chrome/messenger-smime
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> Here are some notable terms I faced, and my translation. So please either
> advice me with better translation or use them for consistency:
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> profile: تشكيل

Hmm, I translate it as ملف
I don't know, but isn't ملف easier to understand for the average user
than تشكيل?


> feed aggregator: محصّل التّلقيمات
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> starred messages: الرّسائل المؤشرّة بنجمة
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> Get messages: احصل على الرّسائل
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> offline: غير متّصل or وضع عدم الاتّصال (depends on context)
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> [for example, "Offline and Connection Settings" would become "إعدادات
> الاتصال و وضع عدم الاتصال",  better than "إعدادات الاتّصال و عدم الاتّصال"
> which sounds confusing !

Good suggestions, I'll keep them in mind while translating.

> By the way, it just came to my mind to use منفصل instead of غير متّصل, what
> do you think of that? Isn't منفصل the perfect opposite of متّصل?]

منفصل may sound like disjointed or separated, I think that غير متّصل
is a better translation, opinions?


> Nawwar

Regards,

-Ayman