FxSound is very nice, but everytime I over the mouse on the tray icon on the taskbar, and despite being pretty sure that was not your primary intent, it does make me laugh, so I’m feeling kind of compelled to tell you about it:
When the program is inactive, the bubble tag says “FXSound é fora”
When the program is active, the bubble tag says “FXSound é sobre”
literally:
“FxSound é fora” means “FxSound itself is out-there”
“FXSound é sobre” means “FxSound itself is about” and “FxSound itself is over”
The english verb “to be” has two very different meanings in portuguese:
“Ser” translates to “to be something” (tall, blue, a bird…)
“Estar” translates to “to be somewhere or in some state” (here, sleeping…)
Mixing those meanings gives weirdly funny results.
“É” means “He, she, or it is something”
“Sobre” means “About” and also “Positionaly over”
If you have the time and wish to correct it, you could use:
“FXSound desligado”, “FXSound inactivo” or “FXSound Off” for the inactive state
“FXSound ligado”, “FXSound activo” or “FXSound On” for the active state
(Like in every electric device importer country, portuguese speaking populations are quite familiar with the terms “On”, “Off” and “Play”)
Thanks for pointing this out. I do notice that the Brazilian Portuguese translation in FxSound uses “desligado” and “ligado”. Does what you’ve said apply to European Portuguese as well?
there are some noticeable differences in pronunciation between the various versions of spoken portuguese (in Europe, Africa, Asia and South America), but the spelling and grammar are, with some exceptions, very similar. A bit like in the various versions of the english language.
I’m european, so for the mentioned expressions, it applies to the european version and to every other version of the portuguese language.
By the way, “ligado” means “turned on” and “desligado” is its opposite, so it means “turned off”.
@bvijay sorry I tried to update the .pt.txt file in github but I don’t know what the hell I’m doing lol… I think I accidentally made a new branch and didn’t put the new file in the right place: GitHub - fxsound2/Strings at jamesarcher9000-pt_fix
Hi @james, No worries. You have followed the process correctly by creating a branch and creating a pull request. But you have placed the file at the parent folder instead of changing the file Strings folder. I have taken the FxSound.pt.txt file and moved it to the correct path in the repo.
