24.10.2014, 15:37, JWP kirjoitti:
On 10/24/2014 07:33 AM, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014, at 04:49, JWP wrote:
This is unsightly and difficult to read.
Ehm... I would think the lack of periods would make things
more difficult to read.
Agreed. However, having 2/3 of the messages without and 1/3 with
makes no sense at all.
Of course it makes sense e.g. if 1/3 of the messages are sentences and
2/3 are not.
- ("The value of the --date option is not a valid date.\n"
- "In particular, it contains quotation marks."));
+ ("The value of the --date option is not a valid date\n"
+ "In particular, it contains quotation marks"));
This is ugly. Two lines of text and it's unclear that the first
sentence ends at the end of the line. If you absolutely want
to get rid of the period, put a semicolon after "valid date" and
lowercase "in particular".
That would not make sense to me. Either we use punctuation or we don't.
"We use punctuation where appropriate" is not an option? If you feel
that way, maybe it would be better not to touch the messages.
I am no grammar expert, but if two sentences was originally correct then
it should still be correct.
A sentence ends in a period. You removed the period. Now they are
sentences missing a period.
All just cosmetic changes, invalidating all the translations.
Not nice.
My sincere oligopolies to translators, but hwclock is slated for refactoring
and I expect many message changes will be included.
Then it is completely unnecessary and silly to introduce this kind of
nonsensical changes at this point. It leads to translators needing to
update the translations not only once, but twice.
BR,
(Mr) Lauri Nurmi
a translator
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