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Re: CVS: gdm2.gnome-2-16.ar.po



On Wednesday 25 October 2006 17:30, Mohamed Magdy wrote:
> Someone said before "Names shouldn't be translated" ... and I agree with
> him/her ... please I was talking about translating abbreviations not the
> names ... let's leave them in English as is ...... or if you feel you
> have to .. see how OOo's name is written in Arabic ... or Mozilla .. can
> you translate it without laughing? التنين الأحمر  though I love the
> following translations .. they make sense but don't use them , I saying
> it .. don't use them .. they are names ...
>
> Firefox --> ثعلب النار
>
> Thunderbird --> طائر البرق
>
> Yes, you feel very powerful when you are using these extraordinary
> creatures :)

You're right unless we are the inventors. Also, see how Firefox and 
Thunderbird are translated to Japanese http://www.mozilla-japan.org/ even if 
they don't use a latin script.