On Mon, 20 May 2013 16:44:26 -0300, Carlos Ribeiro wrote:
Jim, I really understand and respect your points, but I still believing that we MUST avoid false cognates.
I have no idea what you mean by "false cognates".
this is not related with "playing words" like "No va" car name in portugues that as you said means "dont go" well not really becuase "don't go in portuguese in "Nao Va" and not "No va", but still been funny "playing words".
That's not what I was suggesting. I was saying that we can fiddle with the language a lot, but we're bound to run into *some* language where it doesn't mean exactly what we mean in another language. I also specified specifically that with "Nova" I was referring to Spanish, not Portuguese - it was an example of the type of situation where I think we *should* be looking at whether it's the right word or not. "Advocate" meaning "lawyer" isn't the same thing as the "Nova" example. But that's why I suggested the alternate "Defensor" in Portuguese, because that actually means what "Advocate" means in English in this sense.
False cognate is different it's a natural language rule that ppl usualy avoid to use to mitigate risks of confusion.
Hence my suggestion at an alternate word in Portuguese that seems to mean what Richard means with the word "Advocate". Or, OK, we pick a different word because "Advocate" is too close to "Advocator" in Portuguese. So the next word we pick is a word that means "total bastard" in some other language, and we have the debate again. Does it /really/ make sense to look for something because "Advocate" is too close to the Portuguese for "Lawyer", when it's easily worked around by referring to the program as the "openSUSE Defensor" program in Portuguese? Or when the page for the Advocate program explains that we're not talking about *lawyers* here, but talking about *advocates*? Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org