15.12.2012 11:51, Humdinger kirjoitti:
I've noticed that we use a variety of different quit/save dialogs in our apps.
- "Don't save" is the obvious negation of "Save" and therefore even for people with only a rudimentary knowledge of English obvious in an instant. "Discard" isn't as trivial. Being two words also serves to distinguish the label quickly.
If the decision is made to avoid 'difficult' English words, then the language should probably be called Simple English, and such policy should affect all the text strings in Haiku, not just one button in one dialog.
In my opinion that is a bad idea. As basically anyone in the world can download Haiku, it cannot be assumed the end user knows any English at all. So there is no limit on how simple the language should be to make every potential end user understand it.
-LN
