[Foundation-l] Renaming "Flagged Protections"

Mon May 24 11:00:10 UTC 2010

On 05/24/2010 01:41 AM, Ziko van Dijk wrote:
> In German Wikipedia, our word "gesichtet" is a little bit strange.
> "Sichten" is like spotting a rare animal in the wilderness.
>    

That's funny. Internally, especially in technical discussions, "sighted" 
gets used a fair bit. All this time I'd been assuming that, however 
weird "sighted" sounded in English, it must be perfectly good German.

For non-native speakers, "sighted" is rarely used in English. The main 
uses I can think of are to describe a person who isn't blind ("For the 
hike we paired a sighted person with each blind one"), for spotting rare 
animals, or for an archaic nautical flavor ("Cap'n! The bosun's mate has 
sighted the pirate ship from the fo'csle!").

As they say, there's sometimes a quality in a good translation that you 
just can't get in the original.

William