[translations] Noun/Verb context on Localize.drupal.org

[Victor Kane]

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
http://awebfactory.com.ar
http://projectflowandtracker.com

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:17 AM, Miguel Duarte <home at 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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