Re: Launch button

 --- 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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