Improve language of 'Event starts at … to'

  • Resolved Daedalon

    (@daedalon)


    10 years, 3 months ago

    http://demo.wp-events-plugin.com/submit-your-event/ states ‘Event starts at’ for the event start time, and ‘to’ for event end time. This is unnatural language: ‘Event starts at … to …’. Changing ‘to’ to ‘ends’ gives a more natural result: ‘Event starts at … ends …’.

    If there would be a string ‘ends’ in the translation file, we’d gladly switch to using it in our template. Now that there’s no such string, the only option for natural language is a hardly maintainable hardcoding of the strings.

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  • Plugin Support angelo_nwl

    (@angelo_nwl)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    thanks, am going to let Marcus know about this.

    Plugin Author Marcus (aka @msykes)

    (@netweblogic)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    I’m pretty sure we’ve discussed this before in another thread?

    Thread Starter Daedalon

    (@daedalon)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    I remember opening a thread about the linguistics of the recurrences, but I don’t think I’ve raised the issue of the start and end times of all events.

    “Starts at” cannot in English be followed by “to”. The proper continuation would involve “ends” or “lasts until”. Of these two the former is more suitable for this use case. At the moment EM doesn’t ship with a translation for “ends”.

    Some translations (e.g. Finnish) have taken a shortcut and translate “to” as if it would mean “ends”, which it does not. As a result our English pages use unnatural language, whereas Finnish one is natural language due to having been translated in a way that doesn’t match the original.

    Suggestions:

    1. Add an “ends” string to the translations.
    2. Switch to using “ends” instead of “to” in the default template. I’d say no hurry with this one, let the translators catch up after creating the proper string.
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