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Re: Launch button

From:Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...>
Date:Thursday, March 20, 2003, 6:41
Katav Joe:

> From: "Isaac Penzev" > > > This particular button in Russian uses a noun |pusk| related to the verb > > |(za)puskatj| 'to launch'. Some others use infinitives, e.g. |iskatj|
for
> > "serch". > > If I was to make a(nother) language, with computers, I'd use the
imperative.
> After all, you are ordering the website to do something. Either that or
the
> first person future ("I will launch").
Well, the fact is that in Russian you may use infinitive to make a very strong order. So it's close in its meaning to imperative (to some degree, of course). Yitzik ~~~~~~~~~~~~~