[Aptitude-devel] Bug#672467: Bug#672467: [L10N, DE] aptitude: updated german program translation

Axel Beckert abe at debian.org
Fri May 11 14:20:17 UTC 2012


Hi,

Daniel Hartwig wrote:
> >> Even for error messages?
> >
> > Why not? I've never heard of any orthography exception for error
> > messages. (Until now for English. :-)
>
> It may have to do with errors being passed around between programs and
> combined in different ways – by leaving the sentence open it won't
> look strange when inserted in to the middle of another.  *shrug*

That's my only guess, too. But it looks quite far fetched for
generalising it so much that it appears in GNU Coding Standards. :-)

		Regards, Axel
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