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Re: Launch button

From:Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 19, 2003, 8:05
 --- 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 ===== "Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com