From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: [OT] Re: gitk : french translation Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:39:05 +0100 Message-ID: References: <9f50533b0911060605p6ad28ad9neac3620a1809c3db@mail.gmail.com> <9f50533b0911061259w54b57fcdo2c0b21e95dbbdc54@mail.gmail.com> <20091107025439.GC13724@vidovic> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Nicolas Sebrecht , Emmanuel Trillaud , Thomas Moulard , Git Mailing List To: Nicolas Pitre X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Nov 09 09:39:26 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N7PmX-0005KG-5N for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:39:25 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754663AbZKIIjK convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Nov 2009 03:39:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754627AbZKIIjJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Nov 2009 03:39:09 -0500 Received: from mx2.imag.fr ([129.88.30.17]:38130 "EHLO rominette.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754444AbZKIIjI (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Nov 2009 03:39:08 -0500 Received: from mail-veri.imag.fr (mail-veri.imag.fr [129.88.43.52]) by rominette.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id nA98cCnq029039 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 9 Nov 2009 09:38:12 +0100 Received: from bauges.imag.fr ([129.88.43.5]) by mail-veri.imag.fr with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N7PmE-00035B-66; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:39:06 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Nicolas Pitre's message of "Sun\, 08 Nov 2009 20\:30\:38 -0500 \(EST\)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.2 (rominette.imag.fr [129.88.30.17]); Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:38:13 +0100 (CET) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-MailScanner-ID: nA98cCnq029039 X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1258360693.86087@8TIoNbMtNtvoodPqmTGYnw Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Nicolas Pitre writes: > It's like those stu**d people who decided that "email" was too hard t= o=20 > translate. So they declared that "email" was "im=E9l" in French. This one is not _as_ stupid as it seems to be. It's not "im=E9l", it's "m=E9l.", and it's a shortcut for "messagerie =E9lectronique", like "t=E9= l." is a shortcut for "t=E9l=E9phone" (the kind of things to put on your vi= sit card or on the header of a letter). http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/dglf/mel.htm --=20 Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/