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what means EEK ?

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what means EEK ? Cristian Secar? 02 Jun 12:04
  what means EEK ? Simon Budig 02 Jun 12:12
   what means EEK ? Cristian Secar? 02 Jun 14:32
    what means EEK ? Simon Budig 02 Jun 17:28
     what means EEK ? Bill Skaggs 02 Jun 18:33
  what means EEK ? Sven Neumann 02 Jun 21:46
Cristian Secar?
2008-06-02 12:04:32 UTC (almost 17 years ago)

what means EEK ?

A language string says this:
"EEK: can't undo"
What is EEK ?

Cristi

Simon Budig
2008-06-02 12:12:53 UTC (almost 17 years ago)

what means EEK ?

Cristian Secar? (orice@secarica.ro) wrote:

A language string says this:
"EEK: can't undo"
What is EEK ?

http://www.levien.com/gimp/jargon.html:

* eek An expression of shock. Even better is to make Burrito eek. He does it so nicely. Derived from "Eeek, a German", the standard greeting whenever jtl logs on.

also with a varying amount of "e"s... :)

I suspect that this is something that is basically never shown in the UI, don't bother too much with it.

Bye, Simon

Cristian Secar?
2008-06-02 14:32:38 UTC (almost 17 years ago)

what means EEK ?

On Mon, 2 Jun 2008 12:12:53 +0200, Simon Budig wrote:

http://www.levien.com/gimp/jargon.html: * eek An expression of shock. Even better is to make Burrito eek. He does it so nicely. Derived from "Eeek, a German", the standard greeting whenever jtl logs on.

Ok about EEK (thanks), but then ... what is Burrito ? This seems to be a Mexican food, how can a food have an expression of shock ? Or is this some cartoon character ? (this appears to be too cultural-dependant for successful internationalization)

(though I retained the "don't bother too much with it" part)

Cristi

Simon Budig
2008-06-02 17:28:26 UTC (almost 17 years ago)

what means EEK ?

Cristian Secar? (orice@secarica.ro) wrote:

On Mon, 2 Jun 2008 12:12:53 +0200, Simon Budig wrote:

http://www.levien.com/gimp/jargon.html: * eek An expression of shock. Even better is to make Burrito eek. He does it so nicely. Derived from "Eeek, a German", the standard greeting whenever jtl logs on.

Ok about EEK (thanks), but then ... what is Burrito ? This seems to be a Mexican food, how can a food have an expression of shock ? Or is this some cartoon character ? (this appears to be too cultural-dependant for successful internationalization)

http://www.levien.com/gimp/jargon.html: * Burrito One of the #gimp's two beloved bots. Burrito is based on the same code as Xachbot, and is run by yosh. One of Burrito's most important extensions is its ability to eek. It also has a database of 2-letter country codes.

Yeah, cultural-specific, but the culture is the Gimp IRC-Channel culture. The text of that error message is probably not really useful to translate since it is never shown to the user anyway (unless something is very broken in the Gimp code)...

Bye, Simon

Bill Skaggs
2008-06-02 18:33:04 UTC (almost 17 years ago)

what means EEK ?

For what it's worth, in cartoons, "eek" represents the cry a woman makes when she sees a mouse running across her kitchen floor.

Yes, that's sexist. Sorry, but that's the association that Americans have.

-- Bill

(By the way, there is a famous Reggae singer who calls himself Eek-a-Mouse.)

Sven Neumann
2008-06-02 21:46:51 UTC (almost 17 years ago)

what means EEK ?

Hi,

On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 13:04 +0300, Cristian Secar? wrote:

A language string says this:
"EEK: can't undo"
What is EEK ?

Just leave it untranslated. No user will ever see this string. In trunk it was already changed a while ago.

Sven