Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 01 Oct 2006 18:48:54 +0200 | From | Stefan Richter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.18 V7] drivers: add lcd display support |
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Miguel Ojeda wrote: > On 10/1/06, Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> wrote: >> "LCD display" is wrong and, excuse me, dumb in *all* languages. ... > Well, not in all languages: You know, in other languages the "display" > word's first letter isn't "d", so "LCD display" looks good at least in > spanish, as we don't translate the english acronym. ;-)
LCD is in Spanish, as in German, a foreign term. But still, its D is carrying the meaning of "display" or its native equivalent. ("Display" itself is even in common use in Spain, Germany, and many other countries.) In German, "display" may be translated to "Anzeige", "Bildschirm", "Display", "Monitor"; and any of "LCD-Anzeige", "LCD-Bildschirm", "LCD-Display", "LCD-Monitor" would be bad style. ("LCD-Display" would clearly be the worst of all, because one could argue that a display is just a part of a monitor, thus "LCD monitor" is arguably less redundant than "LCD display"...) -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-==- =-=- ----= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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