From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Holger Hellmuth (IKS)" Subject: Re: English/German terminology, git.git's de.po, and pro-git Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 17:31:45 +0200 Message-ID: <5193AA61.2040205@ira.uka.de> References: <87k3n36nvo.fsf@linux-k42r.v.cablecom.net> <001d01ce500b$c7c08b70$5741a250$@scanmyfood.de> <51936218.9020306@ira.uka.de> <519370D3.3000306@web.de> <51937F2D.90608@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jens Lehmann , Ralf Thielow , Thomas Rast , =?UTF-8?B?UmFscGggSGF1w59tYW5u?= , Christian Stimming , Sven Fuchs , git , =?UTF-8?B?SmFuIEtyw7xnZXI=?= To: Jan Engelhardt X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 15 17:31:44 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ucdg6-0007qo-VG for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 15 May 2013 17:31:43 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758427Ab3EOPbi (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 May 2013 11:31:38 -0400 Received: from iramx2.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de ([141.3.10.81]:39872 "EHLO iramx2.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755056Ab3EOPbh (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 May 2013 11:31:37 -0400 Received: from irams1.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de ([141.3.10.5]) by iramx2.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de with esmtps port 25 id 1Ucdfr-0003Qn-5Q; Wed, 15 May 2013 17:31:32 +0200 Received: from i20s141.iaks.uni-karlsruhe.de ([141.3.32.141] helo=[172.16.22.120]) by irams1.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de with esmtpsa port 587 id 1Ucdfq-0005Og-T7; Wed, 15 May 2013 17:31:26 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130329 Thunderbird/17.0.5 In-Reply-To: X-ATIS-AV: ClamAV (irams1.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de) X-ATIS-AV: Kaspersky (iramx2.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de) X-ATIS-AV: ClamAV (iramx2.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de) X-ATIS-Timestamp: iramx2.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de 1368631892.640328000 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Am 15.05.2013 15:14, schrieb Jan Engelhardt: > > On Wednesday 2013-05-15 14:27, Jens Lehmann wrote: >>> >>> While it's spoken Packdatei, the way to actually write it is >>> .pack-Datei or ".pack"-Datei. >> >> I actually had the '-' in there too until I tried to look up "Zip-Datei" >> in the Duden. While I don't get the leading '.' (I cannot remember having >> seen that anywhere, AFAIK the file extensions are always used without the >> dot), I'm not a grammar expert and will be fine either way. > > In UNIX-land, extension seemed to always include the dot. > In DOS-land, it's without (inherited from VMS too, perhaps?) > As such, either way to write it is acceptable. Even in unix-land no one adds a dot because usually the extension is named after the data format, only that the file extension is used as the common abbreviation (at least that is my interpretation). Compare with jpeg. You often write jpeg-Datei instead of jpg-Datei because the data format is called jpeg. This is why I don't think the dot has any reason to be there. I can't remember ever seeing anyone writing .jpg-Datei (or .doc-Datei, .rar-Datei) except to ask what a .xyz Datei contains (i.e. when he doesn't know what the data format is)