Bug#862959: alex4: Error in French translation

Andreas Rönnquist gusnan at debian.org
Fri May 19 11:07:56 UTC 2017


On Fri, 19 May 2017 12:45:19 +0200,
Suppositoire<suppositoire at gmail.com> wrote:

>Package: alex4
>Severity: minor
>
>Dear Maintainer,
>
>I just noticed that the French translation for "Alex the Alligator" is
>not the right one. Indeed, it is currently "Alex l'allégateur" (="Alex
>the Allegorist"), which does not mean the same thing at all.
>
>It should be translated "Alex l'alligator" (alligator as in english).
>
>Please, notice that not only alex4 package description is concerned,
>but also alex4-data package.
>

Please notice that the original English string isn't "Alex the
Alligator", but "Alex the Allegator" - a play on words since the
game uses the library Allegro. 

I don't know about the french translation though, it might be a variant
on the same thing there.

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