[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#171177: Back on debconf templates wording
Julien Cristau
jcristau at debian.org
Sat Jan 3 14:56:56 UTC 2009
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 12:17:19 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> I continue to object most vehemently to this "sanitizing" of debconf
> templates to eliminate the second person. As a native English speaker I
> find this form of writing altogether contrived. It is every bit as valid to
> speak of "your" system as it is to speak of a person missing "their" bus,
> which they also don't own - your rationale is entirely bogus in English, and
> I really wish you would restrict this campaign to the French translations.
>
FWIW it sounds weird to me in French too...
Cheers,
Julien
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