It is fascinating to me that the subject of Chomsky-an "context sensitive grammar" or language (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context-sensitive_language) would appear even obliquely in this discussion.

I fear Gabor is right, and doubt that our Drupal architecture, semantic web and all, will be up to snuff to support a real time context sensitive grammar :) .

We might do better to leverage, somehow, Google translate, etc.

Victor Kane
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On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:17 AM, Miguel Duarte <home@miguelduarte.net> wrote:
Hi,

I wouldn't say that classifying in "noun" and "verb" would solve
everything in latin, but the example you just gave is one of them
where I believe it would solve it:

view (noun) - "vista"
view (verb) - "exibir" or "ver"

Maybe one noun in English could have different equivalent nouns in
Portuguese accordingly with the context. But a simple division between
"noun" and "verbs" would be already a great advance.

For Drupal 7 is already too late from what I understood, but maybe,
for Drupal 8, we (translating teams), could least situations where we
would need that "context"...

Miguel

> Hi Jose,
>
> It is not up to localize.drupal.org to introduce contexts. Unless
> actual Drupal modules and themes use contexts, trying to introduce any
> context from the outside is not possible. The new Drupal 7
> localization API changes allow for contexts, so only modules and
> themes written for Drupal 7 can take advantage of that (and only if
> they explicitly do so).
>
> BTW adding plain "noun" and "verb" contexts is not generally useful.
> Think of "view". As a noun it can be at least three different things I
> can think of right now: "a database view (as in CREATE VIEW ...)", "a
> view you see through a window, at the top of the mountain, etc", "a
> views.module created view". These might be translated to three
> different things even though all three are nouns.
>
> G?bor
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