* i18n and barking dogs
@ 1997-12-31 0:33 Kai Grossjohann
1997-12-31 2:21 ` William M. Perry
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From: Kai Grossjohann @ 1997-12-31 0:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: Franklin Lee
Franklin is writing pop3-biff.el and he thinks that the appropriate
thing to do is to let it bark when new mail arrives. (See the Jargon
File if you don't think that this is appropriate.)
Of course, barking in English is easy: "woof!" will do fine. But
nowadays, i18n is called for; German users expect it to "wau!" or
"wuff!", for instance.
Can you help with other languages?
Oh yes, and surely we do not want to alienate a significant amount of
our user population, so I think Klingon and Esperanto as well as maybe
Swahili are very important languages!
tia,
kai
--
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Uni Dortmund, D-44221 Dortmund http://ls6-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/
Vox +49 231 755 5670, Fax -2405
I like both kinds of music.
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* Re: i18n and barking dogs
1997-12-31 0:33 i18n and barking dogs Kai Grossjohann
@ 1997-12-31 2:21 ` William M. Perry
1997-12-31 7:10 ` Mr. Whipple
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From: William M. Perry @ 1997-12-31 2:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ding, Franklin Lee
Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@charly.cs.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
> Franklin is writing pop3-biff.el and he thinks that the appropriate
> thing to do is to let it bark when new mail arrives. (See the Jargon
> File if you don't think that this is appropriate.)
>
> Of course, barking in English is easy: "woof!" will do fine. But
> nowadays, i18n is called for; German users expect it to "wau!" or
> "wuff!", for instance.
>
> Can you help with other languages?
>
> Oh yes, and surely we do not want to alienate a significant amount of
> our user population, so I think Klingon and Esperanto as well as maybe
> Swahili are very important languages!
Why not just sample a _real dog_ barking? :) But then I guess we'd need
german shepherds, etc.
-Bill P.
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* Re: i18n and barking dogs
1997-12-31 0:33 i18n and barking dogs Kai Grossjohann
1997-12-31 2:21 ` William M. Perry
@ 1997-12-31 7:10 ` Mr. Whipple
1998-01-01 8:36 ` Ken Raeburn
1997-12-31 8:36 ` jari.aalto
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From: Mr. Whipple @ 1997-12-31 7:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@charly.cs.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
> Oh yes, and surely we do not want to alienate a significant amount of
> our user population, so I think Klingon and Esperanto as well as maybe
> Swahili are very important languages!
Klingon dogs don't bark, they just leap up and rip your throat out.
Not a useful biff feature, IMHO. :)
--
Edgar Whipple Have clue, will travel.
ewhipple@rma.edu "Budgies?! We doan need no stinkin *budgies*!!"
Microsoft is not where I want to go today.
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* Re: i18n and barking dogs
1997-12-31 0:33 i18n and barking dogs Kai Grossjohann
1997-12-31 2:21 ` William M. Perry
1997-12-31 7:10 ` Mr. Whipple
@ 1997-12-31 8:36 ` jari.aalto
1997-12-31 10:57 ` Steinar Bang
1998-01-03 16:25 ` Francisco Solsona
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From: jari.aalto @ 1997-12-31 8:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
97-12-31 Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@charly.cs.uni-dortmund.de> list.ding
| Of course, barking in English is easy: "woof!" will do fine. But
| nowadays, i18n is called for; German users expect it to "wau!" or
| "wuff!", for instance.
|
| Can you help with other languages?
Finnish is quite alike German in this respect: "vuf"
jari
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* Re: i18n and barking dogs
1997-12-31 0:33 i18n and barking dogs Kai Grossjohann
` (2 preceding siblings ...)
1997-12-31 8:36 ` jari.aalto
@ 1997-12-31 10:57 ` Steinar Bang
1997-12-31 18:13 ` Daniel Neri
1997-12-31 18:26 ` Ben Gertzfield
1998-01-03 16:25 ` Francisco Solsona
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From: Steinar Bang @ 1997-12-31 10:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
>>>>> Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@charly.cs.uni-dortmund.de>:
> Franklin is writing pop3-biff.el and he thinks that the appropriate
> thing to do is to let it bark when new mail arrives. (See the Jargon
> File if you don't think that this is appropriate.)
> Of course, barking in English is easy: "woof!" will do fine. But
> nowadays, i18n is called for; German users expect it to "wau!" or
> "wuff!", for instance.
> Can you help with other languages?
In norsk it is:
"Voff!"
or (more rarely):
"Vov!"
- Steinar
"Shit! It's på norsk!"
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* Re: i18n and barking dogs
1997-12-31 0:33 i18n and barking dogs Kai Grossjohann
` (3 preceding siblings ...)
1997-12-31 10:57 ` Steinar Bang
@ 1998-01-03 16:25 ` Francisco Solsona
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From: Francisco Solsona @ 1998-01-03 16:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ding, Franklin Lee
Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@charly.cs.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
> Of course, barking in English is easy: "woof!" will do fine. But
> nowadays, i18n is called for; German users expect it to "wau!" or
> "wuff!", for instance.
>
> Can you help with other languages?
In Spanish, you normally hear: "guau" and "woof", but some people
spell that as: "guof".
Francisco
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