Re: Evolution

[Ossama Khayat <okhayat at yahoo dot com>]

I respect and appreciate your feedback and point of
view.
Forwarding this to the 'doc' list for more opinions.
I just want to say one thing, that I was trying to go
with the Arabic translator guide. Otherwise, I think
we better add one more discussion point to the list of
points we're discussing in our meeting, which should
be after tomorrow Friday.

Ossama

--- Arafat Medini <lumina at silverpen dot de> wrote:
[...]
> There is one important point in your translation:
> you changed the verbs
> like clear or open etc... to mu3arraf. I thought
> long time before doing
> the verbs "general" in my translations, the english
> translation does not
> say from the grammatic construction if the Verb is
> "murraf" or not, but
> I've choosen to make the verbs not ma3arrafa for
> many reasons:
> 
> -You don't speak directly to the person, it is more
> general so more
> polite. Think about a person working in a bank and
> having this "very
> personal" string, I think that's not professional.
> Generally an app is
> for ppl from 8 years old to 99 and from the imam to
> the CEO so you have
> to be very safe in the way you speak to other, it is
> then very good to
> be careful and use a verb which is not mu3arraf. A
> neutral verb is every
> time the best choice as the user doesn't want to go
> into personal
> relationships with a PC ;) Or get orders from the
> PC...
> 
> -Second the other languages I can read (french,
> german, and japanese)
> don't use the Verb mu3arraf STILL their grammatical
> constructions, like
> Arabic, force them to make a tasrif if the verb is
> directed towards the
> first person. That's a good indicator that making
> the Verb not mu3arraf
> is the right path IMHO. As they make it general like
> for eg. the form
> :"fath" instead of "iftah" in all the 3 languages...
> 
> -Third, it takes out clutter, in many cases you are
> totally confused,
> what do I have to use now? muarraf or not?(well
> maybe it's only me ;)
> 
> that's MHO ;) so we can speak about this if you have
> other arguments, in
> the meantime I'll not change your work till we solve
> this out.
> 
> yours
> Arafat
> 
> p.s: tomorrow is your turn ;)
> 


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