[Uml-devel] German translation -> to all Sauerkrauts ;-)

[Sebastian Stein]

Jens Krüger <jkrueger1 at users.sourceforge.net> [021126 17:18]:
> I translated some of the expressions with other words. Please have a look at 
> this and if you agreed with some of them use it and put it in the CVS

Ok, I didn't put all translation in like but most of them. I like to give
some arguments why I left some out:

-msgstr "Geben sie den Namen der neuen AktivitÀt ein!"
+msgstr "Geben Sie den Namen der neuen AktivitÀt ein!"

A capital letter would mean to do it everywhere in the dialogs like this.
And an app is not a letter. So I don't like the idea. What does a German
translation style guide say?

-msgstr "Vererbung"
+msgstr "Verallgemeinerung"

I'm not sure about it. Ok, if you took a dictonary Verallgemeinerung would
be correct. But within the context of UML I think Vererbung is a better
translation. I saw this translation in the book UML kompakt. So could you
recheck this?

-msgstr "&Use Case-Diagramm"
+msgstr "&Anwendungsfalldiagramm"

I'm not sure as well. Because I think Use Case ist a know term. In some
German UML books this term isn't translated. But I think it would be ok to
translate it, because everything else is also translated. So I changed the
translation.

-msgstr "Branch/Merge"
+msgstr "Verzweigung/ZusammenfÃŒhrung"

I agree to translate it, but is there a good German translation for
Fork/Join?

-msgstr "Paket"
+msgstr "Packet"

Please look in the Duden, I'm pretty sure it is correct.

Another problem is the -. I don't know the rule when I can split a word with
the - so that it gets more readable. Could we find a common rule so that we
can say that if the word is made by 3 other words, we enter a -?

Steinchen
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