[Lazarus] Lazarus Portuguese translation situation

[Antônio]

I have not formed an opinion about it. But I am for freedom, if there
are people who want  to have (and can maintain) a particular
translation for any language (Guarani perhaps), why not?

But I find it curious that the Brazilian community has considerable
presence in  Lazarus community and Portugal people want to abstract
this.

Antônio

2011/8/31 Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho <felipemonteiro.carvalho at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Paulo Costa <paco at fe.up.pt> wrote:
>> Like Fernando Pessoa said:
>> "A minha pátria é a língua portuguesa"
>
> And which language do people speak in Brazil? Russian? Punjabi?
>
> This is even more absurd considering that ethnic portuguese in Brazil
> (like me) vastly outnumber ethnic portuguese in Portugal
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Brazilian#How_many_Brazilians_have_Portuguese_ancestry.3F).
> And now the minority that stayed behind wants to claim they have
> nothing to do with us, not even the same language =( Good that the
> government from Portugal does not think like that.
>
>> Sometimes the best agreement is that there are enough differences and it is
>> easier to let both parties walk their separate ways.
>
> -1 for this divisive behavior
>
>> I did that when there was the last discussion and I'll do it again. I've
>> been collecting the differences as I was translating:
>
> I think we can reduce the list a lot if we can just make some
> comprimises. I'll start with which words I think should be no problem
> for brazilians to use the portugal variant:
>
>> User - Usuario - Utilizador
>> File - Arquivo - Ficheiro
>> Mouse - Mouse - Rato
>> Screen - Tela - Ecrã
>
> None of these can be simply the brazilian variant? Or else simply slash.
>
>> Reset - Redifinir - Restaurar
>> breakpoint - ponto de parada - ponto de paragem
>> Load - Carregar - Abrir
>
> All of these seam fine the portugal variant, although "Load" depends
> on the context.
>
>> Save - Salvar - Guardar
>
> Can't be the brazilian one? Or else simply slash.
>
>> registers - registradores - registos
>
> Which context? CPU Registers? If yes, then slash. If for database,
> then "registro" is fine.
>
>> policy - regra - política
>
> Política reminds too much of "politics". Can't be the brazilian
> variant? People don't use the word "regra" in Portugal?
>
>> Just try to install in a virtual machine and use a pt_PT version of
>> Windows7. Then you'll see how it fell to use the "other" Portuguese.
>
> I've already used mixed translated linux a couple of times. It was a
> bit funny, at first I didn't know what "ecrã" ment. I don't remember
> being so disgusted that I need to find a way to "clean" up the
> translation.
>
>> They agreed to have different spellings. That's a fork from your
>> perspective.
>
> But they accept both as correct and valid in all circunstances. I have
> never heard anyone from britain complain that we should have a type
> TColour or rewrite texts where "color" is written.
>
> --
> Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
>
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