Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (156 mails)

[Kim Leyendecker <leyendecker@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am 31.10.2011 10:09, schrieb C:
> Mmmm yah, I don't like the "in your Box!" text either.
>
> Why?  Well, it's a phrase that could be "misinterpreted" by some
> people.  I spend a lot of time in my day-to-day job trying to make
> sure that text in software interfaces has as little accidental slang
> as possible.. you know where a word or phrase is entirely innocent in
> one dialect, but makes the immature among us snicker when coming at it
> from another dialect, or even worse, in another language (
> http://www.i18nguy.com/translations.html  a bit over the top compared
> to this, but it still illustrates the point well ).  This phrase would
> probably fail that test.

Me too, I prefer using "Have a lot of fun" or "openSUSE - Linux for open 
minds" (see my signature).

Anyway....

I guess we´re starting a bikeshed[1] here, so we might just leave the 
initial creators alone to find a solution? I guess that they know best :-)

kind regards,
    --kdl

[1] http://blog.jospoortvliet.com/2011/09/bikeshedding-and-cls.html

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