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<DIV>You need to give praise where praise is due: this time it is very nicely put Excellent wording !<BR> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">----- Message d'origine ----<BR>De : louis bodo <louis_bodo@yahoo.fr><BR>À : Wikimedia Translators <translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org><BR>Envoyé le : Mercredi, 17 Janvier 2007, 12h14mn 04s<BR>Objet : [Translators-l] Re : [Foundation-l] 1 M dollars on Wikipedia Day (Fundraising... over)<BR><BR>
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<DIV>Because the 'from' follows immediately the verb 'donated' it refers to it.</DIV>
<DIV>The whole problem is avoided if the verb is changed to a noun (this comes from an English teacher), so the best wording would be.replacing 'all those who donated' with 'all donors' </DIV>
<DIV>The usage (or misusage) is not uncommon</DIV>
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<DIV>Another way is to put a full stop after donated and the rest is taken as a signature</DIV>
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<DIV>Yet another way of putting it:</DIV>
<DIV>Wikipedia Foundation expresses its gratitude (or its thanks) to all those who donated</DIV>
<DIV>or adding ' to its (charitable) organisation' <BR>Louis</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">----- Message d'origine ----<BR>De : Aphaia <aphaia@gmail.com><BR>À : Wikimedia Translators <translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org><BR>Envoyé le : Mercredi, 17 Janvier 2007, 7h45mn 58s<BR>Objet : Re: [Translators-l] [Foundation-l] 1 M dollars on Wikipedia Day (Fundraising... over)<BR><BR>
<DIV>On 1/16/07, Julien F. <julien_f3@yahoo.de> wrote:<BR>> The thank you is *from* the WMF for those who donated<BR>> *to* the WMF.<BR>><BR>> Tricky heh! ;)<BR><BR>Heh. Yes tricky ... perhaps Brion (he made it) didn't want to place<BR>two links too much nearer ... [[xx|WMF]] [[xxx|thanks]] blah blah<BR>blah. I agree the current placement is well-balanced. And "Thank you<BR>to the Foundation" is doublly wrong since 1) it is recursive and make<BR>no sense here and 2) even if so, it would be better replaced with<BR>"for" ..<BR><BR>On the other hand, it could be confused specially non-native Speakers.<BR>If your language syntax allows, you can freely translate it. In the<BR>Japanese version (SOV), we can say "Wikimedia / all of you..../<BR>thanks" so we neatly avoided "from/to" problem ;p<BR><BR>-- <BR>KIZU Naoko<BR> Wikiquote: <A href="http://wikiquote.org/" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://wikiquote.org</A><BR> * habent
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