From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: Miguel Ojeda <maxextreme@gmail.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.18 V7] drivers: add lcd display support
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 18:48:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <451FF176.7090500@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <653402b90610010725l7862ff9fy2b1c072caedaff24@mail.gmail.com>
Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> On 10/1/06, Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> wrote:
>> "LCD display" is wrong and, excuse me, dumb in *all* languages.
...
> Well, not in all languages: You know, in other languages the "display"
> word's first letter isn't "d", so "LCD display" looks good at least in
> spanish, as we don't translate the english acronym. ;-)
LCD is in Spanish, as in German, a foreign term. But still, its D is
carrying the meaning of "display" or its native equivalent. ("Display"
itself is even in common use in Spain, Germany, and many other
countries.) In German, "display" may be translated to "Anzeige",
"Bildschirm", "Display", "Monitor"; and any of "LCD-Anzeige",
"LCD-Bildschirm", "LCD-Display", "LCD-Monitor" would be bad style.
("LCD-Display" would clearly be the worst of all, because one could
argue that a display is just a part of a monitor, thus "LCD monitor" is
arguably less redundant than "LCD display"...)
--
Stefan Richter
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http://arcgraph.de/sr/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-01 16:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-30 23:24 Miguel Ojeda Sandonis
2006-10-01 12:53 ` Miguel Ojeda
2006-10-01 13:51 ` Stefan Richter
2006-10-01 14:25 ` Miguel Ojeda
2006-10-01 16:48 ` Stefan Richter [this message]
2006-10-01 17:58 ` Miguel Ojeda
2008-04-28 23:36 ` monitordelcd
2006-10-01 16:05 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-10-01 16:17 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-10-01 17:33 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-10-01 16:43 ` Randy Dunlap
2006-10-01 17:27 ` Alexander van Heukelum
2006-10-01 17:52 ` Miguel Ojeda
2006-10-01 18:25 ` Alexander van Heukelum
2006-10-01 16:53 ` Stefan Richter
2006-10-02 18:49 ` Andrew James Wade
2006-10-02 21:40 ` Miguel Ojeda
2006-10-03 0:06 ` Andrew James Wade
2006-10-03 12:55 ` Miguel Ojeda
2006-10-03 15:29 ` Randy Dunlap
2006-10-02 22:06 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-02 21:45 ` Miguel Ojeda
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