[Foundation-l] On certain shallow, American-centered, foolish software initiatives backed by WMF

Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki at gmail.com
Sun Oct 30 21:48:36 UTC 2011


Hubert, 30/10/2011 15:24:
> One problem is that the word "Love" is used quite differently in the
> German language. Even in Great Britain.

This again means that translators have to be bold. It's true that 
translation can be difficult, in fact most interwikis of 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiLove loan the English word 
or are calques; the word has broader exposure with the extension so 
should be translated carefully.

Nemo

P.s.: 31st post for me this month. :-/




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