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Oŝo-Jabe (프로필 보기) 2009년 9월 25일 오후 10:52:25
Like, should a button say "respondi" or "respondu"?
Miland (프로필 보기) 2009년 9월 26일 오전 1:22:02
tommjames (프로필 보기) 2009년 9월 26일 오전 10:20:10
I used infinitive form in my own program Tajpi just to follow Firefox and because I personally find the infinitive form more elegant.
ceigered (프로필 보기) 2009년 9월 26일 오후 2:43:31
Therefore laux mia vidpunkto I'd say the infinitive is good for when ever you want to give the user a choice - meaning whenever you have multiple button-elements involved on a dialogue/on the screen (that way it's not drawing immediate attention to one button, which would defeat the purpose of giving them a choice anyway
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I think the main crux of my point is that you have think about what you want your user to think or feel when they see their options.
Of course, where this theory gets me stuck is when you have a dialogue come up telling someone what to do - e.g. "If you want to save (se vi/oni volas savi), press here (klaku tie cxi)" - would that be right?
Miland (프로필 보기) 2009년 9월 26일 오후 3:10:23
ceigered:.. when you have a dialogue come up telling someone what to do - e.g. "If you want to save (se vi/oni volas savi), press here (klaku tie cxi)" - would that be right?Sounds all right to me.
ceigered (프로필 보기) 2009년 9월 26일 오후 3:19:08
Miland:Cheers for the helpceigered:.. when you have a dialogue come up telling someone what to do - e.g. "If you want to save (se vi/oni volas savi), press here (klaku tie cxi)" - would that be right?Sounds all right to me.
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horsto (프로필 보기) 2009년 9월 26일 오후 4:21:01
ceigered:The -u form to me is more like commanding and telling the user what to do, therefore if you have two buttons (let's say, 'delete' and 'save' (forigi and savi if I'm correct?)), with the labels 'forigu' and 'savu', it's almost like giving the user two contradicting commands.Yes, the -u form is like commanding, but the command is not directed at the user, estas male, the user commands the computer to save or delete (savu aŭ forigu).
Rogir (프로필 보기) 2009년 9월 26일 오후 8:13:50
mnlg (프로필 보기) 2009년 9월 26일 오후 8:35:27
Technically, a menu command labeled 'Save' in English would be an imperative too; otherwise it would need to be "To Save", right?
Momomomomo (프로필 보기) 2009년 9월 26일 오후 9:11:05
p.s. I had a look see what Lernu!(eo version) does and found "Sendi mesaĝon", "Legi la forumojn" and a lot of other infinatives but also on the home page "Subtenu lernu!" and "Informu amikon pri lernu!" so apparently being a little imposing with self-promotion.
p.p.s.
mnlg:Technically, a menu command labeled 'Save' in English would be an imperative too; otherwise it would need to be "To Save", right?Meh, I think we english speakers are just too lazy to put "to" on the font of everything