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RE: Cookie, we need you, save us from the angry Dutchman!!!
For some things there are alternatives, but those alternatives are not consistant and/or canon with other translations of similar sentences.
In some cases though, there is not a single Dutch alternative (eg: "Up" => "Omhoog" in the find dialog).
Many controls are just long enough to hold the English translation. The thing is that English is a language with extremely many short words and where combined words don't exist; they all are seperate words (and thus can be 'splitted' over multiple lines).
In many other languages the words are much longer. Especially in Dutch where, as Fanta has pointed out, words are relative very long, not to mention that many words are combined together and can't be split.
eg: to give a (maybe not so good) example: "contact log viewer program" would become "contactpersonenlogboekprogramma".
These same issues also existed in Plus!3 and where also pointed out back then. The thing that some controls have even less available space (while there is plenty of space which can be used) now makes that even worse.
@Patchou: a list is being compiled with the trouble controls
This post was edited on 05-28-2006 at 04:43 PM by CookieRevised.
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