Re: Launch button

On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 08:05:51 +0000
=?iso-8859-1?q?Jan=20van=20Steenbergen?= <ijzeren_jan@...>
writes:
>  --- Mike Ellis skrzypszy:
> > I've never seen how the text on a "LAUNCH" button looks in a
> language that
> > inflects its verbs more than English does. But I need to know this
> now,
> > because I need to know how Rhean verbs would appear in such a
> case. What is
> > the conjugation we see when we see a button marked "LAUNCH"?
> Hmm. This is exactly the same thing as a Windows menu. Dutch uses
> infinitives
> in this case:
> Openen, Verzenden, Opslaan, Sluiten, Bewerken, Kopiëren, etc.
> ("Help" is a
> strange exception, probably based on a wrong translation from
> English).
> Infinitives sound most neutral; at least in Dutch, an imperative
> would look strange to me.
> German works the same as Dutch, IIRC.
> However, I vaguely recall Polish software using imperatives, but I
> might be wrong, since it is almost ten years ago...
> Jan
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Hebrew uses verbal nouns, so for instance, the common windows options
"OK" or "Cancel" are |ishur| ('confirmation') and |bitul|
('cancellation').


-Stephen (Steg)
 "azoi'nyih-yed zawa ez, akh az - sa'esh az!"
     ~ michelle branch