[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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