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Subject:Re: MS Style Guide in French and German? From:"Wayne J. Douglass" <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 11 Feb 1997 09:00:57 -0800
At 10:06 AM 2/11/97 -0500, Fabian Vais wrote:
>I'm not sure where I got them from (this was at least 5-6 years ago), but I
>have a bunch of pages that come from Microsoft, and that contain all those
>"lovely computer terms" in 10 languages, besides English. This is how I know
>that a "scroll bar" is called "rullefelt" in Norwegian, "barre de
>d=E9filement" in French, "barra de desplazamiento" in Spanish, and yes,
>"bildlaufleiste" in German.
>
>You should be able to get these sheets from Microsoft, even if they don't
>print them any more (God knows why they wouldn't...!). I do quite a bit of
>technical translation, and I still often use these sheets. They are are
>precious. They contain all menu commands, window areas and elements
>(borders, scroll bars, rulers, buttons, cursors, etc.), and also all kinds
>of Windows-related terms, such as folder, drop-down menu, checkbox, tool,
>portrait/landscape, case-sensitive, etc., etc.
>
You used to be able to get Microsoft's glossaries of its terminology in
various languages at this URL:
They were available as .CSV files, suitable for importing into Excel, for
example.
--Wayne Douglass
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