[kde-doc-english] Re: kdepim/korganizer (silent)

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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On Wednesday,  08. September 2004 15:53, you wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 Sep 2004 14:39, you wrote:
> > Thanks. So, basically, to-do always needs to be written with a hyphen?
> > Will try to think of this in the future.
>
> Yes, in short.  The singular is to-do, the plural is to-dos and if it needs
> a capital letter use To-do (as opposed to To-Do).

Okay. I changed some more of these and commited them to cvs. There are some 
cases where one needs to search for strings like "to&do". 

> There were six different versions of to-do in various places so a recent
> discussion on kde-doc-english chose one to use throughout, so over the next
> couple of days I hope to replace them all.

Hehe, yes, it was a mess, and everybody just used whatever version he 
personally liked best.

> > Would "Task" instead of "To-do" be a better English word?
>
> In my opinion, yes, but to-do is a buzzword :-)  I trust the KDE
> translators would find a suitable term in their language, so hopefully it
> shouldn't confuse people too much.

But we still have the problem that in several places the term "task" (task 
list, etc) is used, while in other places the term "to-do" is used.

Maybe the people at kde-doc-english can discuss this issue, too.
Personally, I'd like "task" more than "to-do", although I'm more used to the 
latter (since I've been working with that term for years now).

I'm also sending this message to kde-doc-english to start the discussion on 
to-do vs. task. Please cc me on replies, as I'm not subscribed there.

Cheers,
Reinhold

> PS. I had to send this email via a different account, the error I received
> was:
>
> <reinhold at fam.tuwien.ac.at>... Mails from 'yahoo.co.uk' are not accepted
> via foreign mailservers!

Yes, our university refuses to accept mails from yahoo domains, unless it 
comes from a yahoo mailserver. Spammers typically use yahoo email addresses, 
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