Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

[Localization] Wrong Chinese usage of 其他 #1685

Closed
ghost opened this issue Jun 11, 2018 · 10 comments
Closed

[Localization] Wrong Chinese usage of 其他 #1685

ghost opened this issue Jun 11, 2018 · 10 comments
Labels
i18n Issues/PRs related to the Website Internationalisation

Comments

@ghost
Copy link

ghost commented Jun 11, 2018

wrongchinesecharacter

On the home page of Nodejs in Chinese, there's a wrong translation of '其他'. We should use '其它'instead because '它' means things without lives. Compared with this, "他" is He in English, usually means some male person.

@ghost ghost changed the title Wrong Chinese usage of 其他 [Localization] Wrong Chinese usage of 其他 Jun 11, 2018
@fhemberger
Copy link
Contributor

/cc @nodejs/nodejs-cn

@fhemberger fhemberger added the i18n Issues/PRs related to the Website Internationalisation label Jun 11, 2018
@fengmk2
Copy link

fengmk2 commented Jun 11, 2018

@Maledong welcome to help us fix it by a pr.

@ghost
Copy link
Author

ghost commented Jun 11, 2018

@fengmk2
Yes. I tend to follow a strict workflow:
1)Create an issue first to report to all of you.
2)If you think necessary, I'll fix it when free. Otherwises close this.

@ghost
Copy link
Author

ghost commented Jun 11, 2018

@fhemberger
Any other plans to localize the other pages?
If you have such plans, you can make a report about your plans and I'll do that when free.

@laosb
Copy link

laosb commented Jun 11, 2018

Surely we accept translation contributions for other pages! But before you contribute, I remembered there is already a pending PR doing this. Do you mind check it out?

@ghost
Copy link
Author

ghost commented Jun 11, 2018

@laosb :Which PR?
It seems I didn't find that in the Pull Requests before submitting it...

@laosb
Copy link

laosb commented Jun 11, 2018

@Malegong IIt seems that the author of #1590 is willing to translate all other pages. You can try contacting him. Thanks for being willing to contribute!

@ghost
Copy link
Author

ghost commented Jun 11, 2018

@laosb :Thanks for guiding me and linking my change there. And there's no conflicts between his changes and mine. So maybe there's a merge.

@ghost ghost closed this as completed Jun 12, 2018
@lepture
Copy link

lepture commented Jun 19, 2018

「其他」并没有错,「它」是后来的“新造字”,用来指代 it,正如「她」也是新造字,用来指代 she。这就导致现代人认为「他」仅仅表示 he 了。

但是并不是这样的,「他」是泛用字,表示非第一人称非第二人称。正如我们不用「其她」,我们也不应该用「其它」,事实上「其它」是一种误用,没有所谓有生命没生命。

  1. https://www.moedict.tw/%E5%85%B6%E4%BB%96

@lepture
Copy link

lepture commented Jun 19, 2018

This issue was closed.
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Labels
i18n Issues/PRs related to the Website Internationalisation
Projects
None yet
Development

No branches or pull requests

4 participants