[OSM-talk] Anglo (- Dutch) translation guide (was: Re: Import guidelines & OSMF/DWG governance)

Lucas Nussbaum lucas at lucas-nussbaum.net
Wed Sep 19 12:17:50 BST 2012


On 19/09/12 at 12:17 +0200, Maarten Deen wrote:
> On 2012-09-19 12:04, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> 
> >It's also been observed, quite rightly, that the nuances of
> >British English
> >- which tends to "gently suggest" when other languages would say "you
> >MUST!!!?!1" - are not easily appreciated by non-native speakers.
> >We had a
> 
> For this I always use the (completely accurate) "Anglo - Dutch
> translation guide".

Or simply use MUST/SHOULD/MAY/... as defined in RFC 2119?
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt

Lucas



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