[Debian-handbook-translators] making a typo in section "4. Book Structure"?
AYANOKOUZI, Ryuunosuke
i38w7i3 at yahoo.co.jp
Mon Oct 6 14:38:56 UTC 2014
Hi Ivan and Raphael,
Thank you for your reply.
> > > "Debian now sports two new architectures..."
> > > in chapter "Foreword" section "4. Book Structure"
> > > I think this sentence might be a typo of
> > > "Debian now ports two new architectures...".
> > >
> > > What do you think of this?
> >
> > Hi, I am no expert whatsoever in the English language but by
> > the context of the paragraph seems correct the way was written.
> [...]
> > In this case "sports" refers to a way of say that Debian (now)
> > "displays"[1] or
> > "wears"[1] or "includes" or "now has" two new architectures.
>
> Indeed, that's the meaning here:
>
> $ dict sport
> [...]
> v 1: wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner; "she
> was sporting a new hat" [syn: {sport}, {feature}, {boast}]
Thanks to the suggestions, I get the point.
May I ask some translation-related questions (non-technical issues) here in feature,
if I miss the point of a sentence?
Regards,
AYANOKOUZI, Ryuunosuke
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AYANOKOUZI, Ryuunosuke <i38w7i3 at yahoo.co.jp>
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