[Foundation-l] Renaming "Flagged Protections"

[Ziko van Dijk]

Well, what James Alexander says - maybe we can make up something of
"edit". "Checked edit".
Ziko

2010/5/24 William Pietri <william at scissor.com>:
> On 05/24/2010 01:41 AM, Ziko van Dijk wrote:
>> In German Wikipedia, our word "gesichtet" is a little bit strange.
>> "Sichten" is like spotting a rare animal in the wilderness.
>>
>
> That's funny. Internally, especially in technical discussions, "sighted"
> gets used a fair bit. All this time I'd been assuming that, however
> weird "sighted" sounded in English, it must be perfectly good German.
>
> For non-native speakers, "sighted" is rarely used in English. The main
> uses I can think of are to describe a person who isn't blind ("For the
> hike we paired a sighted person with each blind one"), for spotting rare
> animals, or for an archaic nautical flavor ("Cap'n! The bosun's mate has
> sighted the pirate ship from the fo'csle!").
>
> As they say, there's sometimes a quality in a good translation that you
> just can't get in the original.
>
> William
>
>
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