Weird English...

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#1

In
javaerror.src WARNINGBOX_INVALIDJAVASETTINGS_MAC warningbox.text

We have

The %PRODUCTNAME configuration has been changed. Under %PRODUCTNAME -
Preferences - %PRODUCTNAME - Advanced, select the Java runtime
environment you want to have used by %PRODUCTNAME.

This sounds weird... "you want to use" sounds better for me. What have I
missed?

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#2

Hi :slight_smile:
I think you are correct but maybe add "in" or "with" at the end.

Sorry, i am English (Uk/GB) and English (US) always seems to use the wrong prepositions (such as; in, with, to) so i am never sure which one to use now.

I had to re-read the paragraph quite a few times to make sure!!  At first i thought they were trying to make it into a past-tense but you can see from the context that they weren't.  I think they simply got caught out by trying to be too precise.  They seem to want to say it's not you personally that is going to use the "Java Runtime" because it's really the "%ProductName" that will be using it.

It's a bit like trying to explain to a police officer that you weren't smoking illegally.  It was the cigarette/cigar that was smoking and you were just inhaling the smoke it made.

Also it might be better to make the R of Runtime into a capital letter?  Perhaps also the E of Environment.  Often "Java Runtime Environment" gets shortened to "JRE".  Does that make a difference for translations?  So, i think they meant;

"The %PRODUCTNAME configuration has been changed. Under %PRODUCTNAME -
Preferences - %PRODUCTNAME - Advanced, select the Java Runtime
Environment you want to use in/with %PRODUCTNAME."

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#3

Hi Olivier,

In javaerror.src WARNINGBOX_INVALIDJAVASETTINGS_MAC
warningbox.text

We have

The %PRODUCTNAME configuration has been changed. Under %PRODUCTNAME
- Preferences - %PRODUCTNAME - Advanced, select the Java runtime
environment you want to have used by %PRODUCTNAME.

This sounds weird... "you want to use" sounds better for me. What
have I missed?

For me the meaning behind is "you want %PRODUCTNAME uses" more than
"you want to use"

Kind regards
Sophie

#4

Hi :slight_smile:
+1

Just a slight twist into English (Uk) (errr, which is the wrong version of English) ...

"The %PRODUCTNAME configuration has been changed. Under %PRODUCTNAME -
Preferences - %PRODUCTNAME - Advanced, select the Java Runtime
Environment you want %PRODUCTNAME to use."
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#5

Or maybe just:

"...select the Java runtime environment used by %PRODUCTNAME"

#6

Hi :slight_smile:
Perhaps;

"select the Java Runtime Environment to be used by %PRODUCTNAME"

I think that is going off-track a bit and heading towards the original inelegance?  Its a bit difficult to tell
without more context.  It looks like it's a paragraph in a 3rd party
app, perhaps inside a JRE configuration utility?  I think Sophie's was the most elegant answer so far (in English) and i can't imagine anyone improving on that.

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#7

No problem with that.

Regards

#8

In data lunedì 27 maggio 2013 10:08:45, Sophie Gautier ha scritto:

Hi Olivier,

> In javaerror.src WARNINGBOX_INVALIDJAVASETTINGS_MAC
> warningbox.text
>
> We have
>
> The %PRODUCTNAME configuration has been changed. Under %PRODUCTNAME
> - Preferences - %PRODUCTNAME - Advanced, select the Java runtime
> environment you want to have used by %PRODUCTNAME.
>
> This sounds weird... "you want to use" sounds better for me. What
> have I missed?

For me the meaning behind is "you want %PRODUCTNAME uses" more than
"you want to use"

+1

In Italian could be: "che volete venga usato da %PRODUCTNAME"

Ciao