499535 - Strange Dutch localisation of session restore

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Mozilla Localizations :: nl / Dutch, defect)

Description

[Robin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; nl-BE; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090616 Firefox/3.5 FirePHP/0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; nl-BE; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090616 Firefox/3.5

The Dutch (nl) localisation of the new session restore is "Dit is genant."
It was quite strange when I first saw it, since the word "genant" means something like "embarrassing". I don't know where translations are done or who is doing them, but this is a strange translation, so please consider changing it.

Thanks!

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

The en-US string is "Well, this is embarassing.", so that translation is correct!

The choice of words was intentional, see the localization note here:

http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/locales/en-US/chrome/browser/aboutSessionRestore.dtd#3

I'll move this to the localizations component, since I can't really comment on the strangeness of the word in dutch, but I suspect there isn't really a problem to be tracked here.

Comment 2

[Robin]

Ah, I understand. If it is like that in the source, then it's a correct translation.
It's even in English a strange wording, but that's just my opinion. :-)

Because it's intended, I'll mark it as RESOLVED.

Comment 3

[Tim Maks van den Broek [:mad_maks]]

We just have a discussion about this sting see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=468309#c59 

(thanks for reporting, even if it is invalid :-) )