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bug#35287: dired-do-copy English beef-up


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: bug#35287: dired-do-copy English beef-up
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 22:58:35 +0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

>> > Copy: 11 files
>> > Actually "Copied 11 files" is proper English and doesn't leave us
>> > somewhat worrying...
>>
>> Other messages that use the same operation name:
>>
>>   "Copy: 2 of 3 files skipped"
>>   "Copy failed for 2 of 3 files"
>>
>> Shouldn't the latter be "Copying failed"?
>> So for every operation three verb forms are needed:
>> "Copy", "Copying", "Copied", correct?
>
> My own advice is to leave it alone.

This is important in light of our efforts for i18n.

> If you want, for "Copy" read "Copy operation" or
> "Operation Copy".

"Operation Copy" is a catchy name.





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