Fwd: Verbs form in UI actions

["Leonardo Fontenelle" <leo fontenelle gmail com>]

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From: Leonardo Fontenelle <leo fontenelle gmail com>
Date: 20/12/2006 00:20
Subject: Re: Verbs form in UI actions
To: Christian Rose <menthos gnome org>


2006/12/19, Christian Rose <menthos gnome org>:
> Swedish uses imperative on all menu items and buttons, except for some
> old translations (like "File" menu => "Arkiv") that are nouns by
> convention (that's what they were mistakenly translated to in the
> early days of GUIs, and that's what people simply expect them to be
> today). Any more recent menu/button terms are all imperatives (like
> "Exit" => "Avsluta" and "Close" => "Stäng").
I've thought of "File" as a verb :-o In Portuguese (both in Brazil and
in Portugal) it is translated as a noun, and I never heard anyone
complain about that.

> and we all say the equivalent of "you"
Just for curiosity, in Brazil (AFAIK not Portugal) we do that a lot,
although less than in Sweden. We are much less formal than most
Europeans :)

Leonardo Fontenelle