Two faulty translations of Mute site and Unmute site in Danish
Reported by
jesper.h...@gmail.com,
Nov 7
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Issue description
[Language]
Danish
[Version number]
70.0.3538.77
[OS details]
Windows 10 (1803, build 17134.345), but most likely on all platforms.
[Where is the poor translation?]
In the tab context menu (the menu you get when you right-click a tab), there are two incorrect and slightly confusing Danish translations of "Mute site" and "Unmute site". Most can still understand what they mean, but the grammatical articles are confusing:
"Mute site" is incorrectly translated to "Slå lyden fra på et website" (meaning "Mute a site"); it's the indefinite article "a" that is incorrect and confusing. The correct translation is either "Slå lyden fra på dette website" ("Mute this site") or "Slå lyden fra på websitet" ("Mute the site"). The third possible translation, without an article, "Slå lyden fra på website" ("Mute site") doesn't quite sound right in Danish, even though it does sound right in English. In Danish an article makes the translation better and clearer, but it has to be the right one.
Similarly, "Unmute site" is incorrectly translated to "Slå lyden til på et website" ("Unmute a site"). The correct translation is either "Slå lyden til på dette website" ("Unmute this site") or "Slå lyden til på websitet" ("Unmute the site").
I personally find the translations "Slå lyden fra på dette website" ("Mute this site") and "Slå lyden til på dette website" ("Unmute this site") best.
The incorrect translation clearly happened because the translators didn't have the proper context for translating the strings and therefore had to guess; the existing translations *could* have been right, given no context, but with the context, they are incorrect.
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Attached screenshots of the menus to show context.
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Nov 14
Able to reproduce the issue on Mac & Linux debian using chrome latest stable-70.0.3538.102 & canary-72.0.3610.0 as per c#0.Observed "Slå lyden fra på et website" in tab context menu in Danish language. Same issue seen from M65 to latest Canary. From M60 to M64 observed different behavior which not as intended. Hence unable to find regression for this issue.. So marking it as Untriaged to get addressed from dev team. Please find the attached screencast for reference. Note: Mute site option is not avaiable in windows. Observed Mute tab option. **UI Mass Triage** |
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Comment 1 by jesper.h...@gmail.com
, Nov 7