Mon 06 Dec 2010 09:47:58 PM UTC, comment #4:
I expect that "Frobbing" is a placeholder word. The comment exists immediately above the translation for "Connecting to %s:%u...", which would be followed by "done" (except we actually follow it with "connected.", at least currently. It is this manner of phrasing things that I think is being complained about.
I'd like someone to present an example of how this is actually harmful, though. It's not as if "Connecting to blah... done" is exactly one complete sentence; it's more like two, and even if it's not, it can easily be represented as two, in (it seems to me) any language: "In the midst of connecting to blah." "Done connecting".
Perhaps some effort should be made to contact the commentator (that is, the translator for the first .po file in which this comment appears), to try to get a better understanding of what the problem is. Or even the Hebrew translation team at translationproject.org.
On the other hand, I don't have a problem if you just want to close it, and let it come up again if some translator brings it up again. As I said, I'm somewhat skeptical that it was a problem, and I only knew about it anyway by using the gettext tools to print out "comments from the translators" from the translated .po files. If they really cared, seems to me they'd take more effort to bring it to the devs' attention. I don't really know Hebrew, but I do know some basic Hebrew grammar, and I don't really see the problem the translator seems to be getting at.
Or perhaps the problem has even already been resolved; perhaps instead of finishing with "connected.", we actually did use "done." at some point, which might conceivably have caused problems we don't have now (especially if we use "done." in multiple places, for different contexts).
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