El 24/3/2008, a las 11:07, Santiago Gala escribió:
Wincent Colaiuta <win <at> wincent.com> writes:
Great job on the translation! Some feedback follows:
El 24/3/2008, a las 0:58, sgala <at> marlow.memojo.com escribió:
+#: gitk:275
+msgid "Can't parse git log output:"
+msgstr "No puedo analizar la salida de git log:"
Wouldn't it be normal to use an impersonal form there? ie. "No se
puede analizar" instead of "No puedo analizar"
Well, "no se puede" has 3 more characters than "no puedo", this was
the
primary reason why I switched to the first person form. Spanish is
way more
verbose than English.
Yes, I know, in many cases it is.
what about "Error analizando la salida de git log:"?
it is impersonal and shorter than the original one.
I think that's better. The first person form really stands out like a
sore thumb because basically _all_ of the output from the computer is
in an impersonal form, and all of a sudden the computer starts telling
you "_I_ couldn't process this!" as though it were a person.
If you really care about length, you _might_ consider saving 3 more
chars with:
"Error al leer la salida de git log"
But that's arguably starting to drift further away from the original
English meaning (parse -> read as opposed to parse -> analyze).
Cheers,
Wincent
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