Calculated Ceiling

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Wed Feb 6 12:42:01 PST 2013


Lutz Vieweg <lvml at 5t9.de> writes:

> On 02/06/2013 06:51 AM, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
>> BTW: what's ceiling in German?
>
> That is a very good question. I consulted some DC manufacturer manuals on this.
>
> Suunto uses a wild variety of different German and Denglish words in their
> German manual, but most often they call it "Dekompressionsstufe", which is
> both ambiguous and unprecise.
>
> Atomic describes the displayed ceiling initially as "tiefster Dekompressionsstop",
> later abbreviated just as "Dekompressionsstop" or even "Deko-Stop".
>
> Scubapro describes the ceiling value in the display as "tiefster Stop",
> but uses the word "Dekompressionsstop" in many places elsewhere without
> specifically noticing whether the deepest one or just any of several
> decompression stops is meant.
>
> If there's enough space, I'd recommend to use "tiefster Dekompressionsstop"
> as this is unambigous, or "tiefster Deko-Stop" if space is an issue.

Here's what I just committed. Let me know if any of them should be
rephrased...

/D

>From 85fad3f2a97a1c02ece54a94365e682fbec38f8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org>
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 07:40:37 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix German translation of ceiling

Suggested-by: Lutz Vieweg <lvml at 5t9.de>
Signed-off-by: Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org>
---
 po/de_DE.po | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/po/de_DE.po b/po/de_DE.po
index 4802837..85304da 100644
--- a/po/de_DE.po
+++ b/po/de_DE.po
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ msgid ""
 "Calculated ceiling %.0f %s"
 msgstr ""
 "%s\n"
-"berechnete Obergrenze %.0f %s"
+"berechneter tiefster Deko-Stopp %.0f %s"
 
 #: profile.c:2128
 #, c-format
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ msgstr "20 l/min"
 
 #: gtk-gui.c:833
 msgid "3m increments for calculated ceiling"
-msgstr "3m Stufen für berechnete Obergrenze"
+msgstr "3m Stufen für berechnete Deko-Stopps"
 
 #: print.c:903
 msgid "6 dives per page"
@@ -1384,11 +1384,11 @@ msgstr "MOD anzeigen"
 
 #: gtk-gui.c:828
 msgid "Show calculated ceiling"
-msgstr "Berechnete Obergrenze anzeigen"
+msgstr "Berechnete tiefste Deko-Stopps anzeigen"
 
 #: gtk-gui.c:820
 msgid "Show dc reported ceiling in red"
-msgstr "Vom TC ausgelesene Obergrenze in rot anzeigen"
+msgstr "Vom TC ausgelesene tiefste Deko-Stopps in rot anzeigen"
 
 #: divelist.c:2441
 msgid "Show in map"
@@ -1743,11 +1743,11 @@ msgstr "Markierung"
 
 #: libdivecomputer.c:149
 msgid "ceiling"
-msgstr "Minimaltiefe"
+msgstr "tiefster Deko-Stopp"
 
 #: libdivecomputer.c:152
 msgid "ceiling (safety stop)"
-msgstr "Minimaltiefe (Sicherheitsstopp)"
+msgstr "Sicherheits-Stopp"
 
 #: equipment.c:830
 msgid "clip-on"
-- 
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