590962 - Localization suggestion for ro

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Localization, defect, P3)

Description

[Justin Scott [:fligtar]]

From email:

"you have a SERIOUS translation problem on 
https://addons.mozilla.org/ro/firefox/extensions/language-support/. You 
translated "Language support" in Romanian as "Suport pentru limbi" wich, 
translated in english, sounds like "Toungues support". Imagine that 
every friend of mine laughed for minutes when they saw that error. You 
sould translate it as "Asistenta lingvistica" or "Sprijin lingvistic". 
You also translated it to plural and it's not correct."

Comment 1

[Raul Nicolae Malea]

support= sprijin


    substantiv (noun):
        sprijin
        suport
        susţinere
        ajutor
        sprijinire
        întreţinere
        reazem
        bază
        subzistenţă
        rezemare
        postament
        stâlp
        protecţie
        adăpost
        căpătâi
        consolă
        mângâiere
        cârjă
        hrană
    verb:
        sprijini
        susţine
        suporta
        ajuta
        întreţine
        favoriza
        încuraja
        ţine
        proteja
        secunda
        duce
        îngriji de
        îndura
        alimenta
        tolera
        răbda

language=limbă

substantiv(noun):

    limbă
    limbaj
    exprimare
    vorbire
    stil
    manieră de a se exprima

Also, in project translate for addons.mozilla.org I donțt identifing "language support" item.

Alex, this bug is resolvable?

Comment 2

[Raul Nicolae Malea]

support= sprijin


    substantiv (noun):
        sprijin
        suport
        susţinere
        ajutor
        sprijinire
        întreţinere
        reazem
        bază
        subzistenţă
        rezemare
        postament
        stâlp
        protecţie
        adăpost
        căpătâi
        consolă
        mângâiere
        cârjă
        hrană
    verb:
        sprijini
        susţine
        suporta
        ajuta
        întreţine
        favoriza
        încuraja
        ţine
        proteja
        secunda
        duce
        îngriji de
        îndura
        alimenta
        tolera
        răbda

language=limbă

substantiv(noun):

    limbă
    limbaj
    exprimare
    vorbire
    stil
    manieră de a se exprima

Also, in project translate for addons.mozilla.org I donțt identifing "language support" item.

Alex, this bug is resolvable?

Comment 3

[Alexandru Szasz]

(In reply to comment #0)
> From email:
> 
> "you have a SERIOUS translation problem on 
> https://addons.mozilla.org/ro/firefox/extensions/language-support/. You 
> translated "Language support" in Romanian as "Suport pentru limbi" wich, 
> translated in english, sounds like "Toungues support". Imagine that 

That's just machine translation.

> every friend of mine laughed for minutes when they saw that error. You 
> sould translate it as "Asistenta lingvistica" or "Sprijin lingvistic". 
> You also translated it to plural and it's not correct."

In English, the translation for the Romanian translate we used would be "Support for languages", because of the grammar differences we switch places. In Romanian, the translation for language is the same as for tongue, there is no way around it. English itself has terms like mother tongue.

What the user suggests, replacing language with linguistic is unacceptable as it has a different meaning.

About the plural, it's obvious that the support is for many languages, not for one languages, so yes we have to use the plural.

Looking at the page mentioned, I see right under "Support for languages" the extension "Dictionary Switcher" so I would say it's pretty obvious we're talking about languages and not tongues.

About the friend's laugh, I wouldn't say that 1.2 million results on google is something to laugh about: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22suport+pentru+limbi%22 .

So having all these in mind I suggest a won't fix on this bug.

Comment 4

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

Thanks for the feedback.