[WikiFR-l] Fwd: [Private-l] [Fwd: Wikipedia.org incorrect translation]

Ven 9 Sep 08:53:11 UTC 2005

Forwarded it to the french list. I love it

Brion Vibber <brion at pobox.com> wrote: Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 15:45:47 -0700
From: Brion Vibber <brion at pobox.com>
To: private-l <private-l at wikimedia.org>
CC: 
Subject: [Private-l] [Fwd: Wikipedia.org incorrect translation]

Just thought this would brighten your day. ;)

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Wikipedia.org incorrect translation
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 13:56:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: xxx
To: brion at pobox.com

Hi. The French version of the phrase "free encyclopedia" on the home
page is incorrectly translated, and any grammatically competent French
speaker will notice it immediately. It should be using "gratuit"
instead of "libre", for reasons that I (or any grammatically competent
French speaker) could explain if asked. As written, the phrase does
not mean what you think it means, and in fact sounds rather silly. I
would like to report this as a bug but the only method I can find to do
so seems to expect me to create an account and fill out a form and I
don't know what all else that is way too much time and trouble for me
to take when all I wanted to do when I started was help you guys out a
little but upon reflection it doesn't look like it's worth the
aggravation.

Have a nice day.

xxx

"... there was always a minority afraid of something,
and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the
future, afraid of the past ..."
- Ray Bradbury, _The Martian Chronicles_

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