Re: Program's bad English
- Posted by SDPringle Aug 21, 2008
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That is exactly what I am talking about. Programs should issue messages in away that shows more mastery of English than has Grimlock (See TransFormers Movie [original cartoon version] if you don't remember who I am talking about)
Compare: Getting the Fruit Loops...done Getting the bowl...done Getting the milk...done Pouring the cerealthis may take several minutes...done Pouring the milk...
to:
Get Fruit Loops Get bowl Get milk Pour Cereal pour milk
Now, either one could be an output to the console or a sequence of strings to be outputed into a status bar. I know the first example looks like a configure script output. Or it might remind you of what scandisk shows you. The second example is of the form I see when using OpenOffice and eutest.ex
Right now I see: 'translate t_database:' It would be better if it read: 'translating t_database.e to C' or even 'will now translate t_database.e to C.'
Shawn Pringle
