https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=404286
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--- Comment #30 from r.ro...@outlook.com ---
I stumbled over here after seeing angry comments from people on Nate's blog and
feel I have a couple things to say.
One, as a native Polish speaker (and sorta a purist like our translator here)
who only actually tried using KDE in Polish after the change to "Zaniechaj" (my
day-to-day machine is set to English), my reaction to seeing this for the first
time was: "Oh, how cute. I like it." On the other hand, I don't think
idiosyncrasies like this one are exactly good, for example when someone
unfamiliar with KDE tries supporting a user over the phone… Has anyone
considered this? In software translation, you don't want "cute" or "where's the
'Anuluj' button" to be the first reaction.
Two, Apple had not commissioned a Polish translation of Mac OS before Leopard.
However, "Polonizator" fan translations did exist. Hence, it wasn't that Apple
'softened', it was that fan translators were purists, too. At least *they*
could argue that there was no existing translation and no prevailing standard
(unless you count Windows 95, which was still fairly new at the time these
translations started - the oldest one I could find was for Mac OS 9), either.
In this case, we have both a long history of KDE using "Anuluj" *and* others
using *Anuluj* virtually all around us, including notable applications people
run on KDE, like Firefox.
Three, while I can get behind encouraging use of "purer language", I cannot
applaud the decision to change a common UI element without soliciting opinions
beforehand.
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