CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@jima are we talking about networking, traffic or woodworking?

@mattblaze

@mattblaze I mean, isn't it just like "route" but with the r at the end?

@nixCraft that's a completely unfounded reaction to the Brazilian law. It does not involve operating systems

@jjj my point is that the same string "Close" is translated to Swedish in the imperative form and to Portuguese in the infinitive form. I'm curious how it's done in other languages.

@leonardof arrgh limitação do Moshidon que não mostra o idioma, só o botão para mudar

@compfu @sarajw that raises a great question: do you treat the Computer as "du" or "Sie"?

@jjj what motivates de question is that in English, the infinitive and imperative forms are identical. In Portuguese, they are translated in the infinitive: "Fechar" instead of "Feche" or "Fecha"

@nafmo that's what inspired me to post this poll. When translating software to Portuguese, the verbs are translated in the infitive

@williamoconnell examples of "save" being interpreted as infitive may be:

"[I want to] save [the file]"
"[I must] save [the file]"

Of course, imperative is something like "Computer, save this file"

@aarbrk in that case, X would be a verb in the infinitive.

Please boost for reach etc etc

Thanks!

Iff English is your second language, how are these verbs tusually translated to *your* language in software interfaces?

English speakers of the fedi. In a software with the interface in English, Reading a menu with verbs such as Save, Open, Close, Edit, Format etc., do you read them as imperative (an order: "do this") or as an infinitive (the "base form" of the verb, like "to do this")?

Are you a native speaker or have English as a second language?

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@KarenDorman
In a very simplified and straightforward manner, people are voting, within each party, who will be the candidate for that party.

So if Moe, Larry and Curly are democrats and they all want to be THE democrat candidate for president, people affiliated with the party vote which one they want to be the candidate in the next election.

@LingLass @aud @GayDeceiver