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Idioma: English
Rohan (Mostrar o perfil) 19 de maio de 2008 04:30:54
In the Esperanto version of lernu, when one has to respond to a received message, the button for 'Send' doesn't read 'Sendi'; it reads 'Sendu'.
Why such inconsistency? Very fishy indeed...
Frakseno (Mostrar o perfil) 19 de maio de 2008 07:08:40
Sendu!
Vi scias, ke vi volas sendi gxin!
Sendu!!
Send!
You know you want to send it!
Send!
Miland (Mostrar o perfil) 19 de maio de 2008 07:38:49
Frakseno:Vi konas, ke vi volas ..It should be 'Vi scias, ke vi volas..' We know (scias) facts, but we are acquainted with (konas) persons.
Filu (Mostrar o perfil) 19 de maio de 2008 12:55:34
Rohan:STOP THE PRESSES!!!!I don't think it's wrong to use the imperative form, I only think that the infinitive form is not strange.
In the Esperanto version of lernu, when one has to respond to a received message, the button for 'Send' doesn't read 'Sendi'; it reads 'Sendu'.
Why such inconsistency? Very fishy indeed...
My personal opinion is that 'sendi' seems a little more neutral and that 'sendu' seems an attempt at "personalizing" the tool (when in fact it is merely a lifeless manmade product that won't ever offer me more than what it was intended and pre-programed for).
When I am addressing comments to a tool, as I mentioned before, it's to give it shit for not working properly.
EL_NEBULOSO (Mostrar o perfil) 19 de maio de 2008 13:01:49
also in German we would use the infinitiv in such a case i.e. "senden" and not the imperativ i.e. "sende" (singular) or "sendet" (plural).
So it seems it is by far more common to use the infinitiv but also the imperativ should work.
Gerald
Frakseno (Mostrar o perfil) 19 de maio de 2008 17:02:54
Miland:Dankon! Vi pravas.Frakseno:Vi konas, ke vi volas ..It should be 'Vi scias, ke vi volas..' We know (scias) facts, but we are acquainted with (konas) persons.
Thank you! You are correct!
I appreciate the correction and have edited my post.
Andybolg (Mostrar o perfil) 20 de maio de 2008 17:50:09
But I guess the infinitve works too
mnlg (Mostrar o perfil) 20 de maio de 2008 18:05:46
Andybolg:I vote for the imperative!If imperative wouldn't work, you'd be visiting lerni.net!
Filu (Mostrar o perfil) 22 de maio de 2008 17:01:03
When I type in this message, I read 'Aldoni mesaĝon', 'Antaŭmontri', ...
It seems like the imperative form is not systematic even in lernu!
So I guess, everyone should feel free to use to his/her conveniance between imperative, infinitive and/or substansive when designing computer tools.
kodi (Mostrar o perfil) 8 de junho de 2008 23:36:02
gives people a chance to use which version they grew up with and know and also show them another thought process