Help us : Spelling/Grammar/Structure Errors in ENGLISH

For all members, especially the ones for whom English is their first language.

Even if a blitz of corrections has been done in the English language files lately, there might be still some errors left. That's why I seek your help in order to finish these corrections.

To report an error

1. Post the word or the sentence where you see an error
   
2. Give the correction you suggest
   
3. Give the location of this error (ex : In the admin panel > Modules > Portal Structure > "Adding of existing modules") It is advised to provide a screenshot of this. If you don't know how to take a screenshot, look here
   

We ask you to not post an error report if the error is one of these followings :

1. Having "Parcourir" when you upload a file/picture, and "Envoyer" when you use the founder's utils. In these two cases, this comes from your browser's language. So, if your browser is in French, these buttons will be in French. If your browser is in English, the buttons will be in English.
   
2. Buttons (nav links or messages buttons) in French such as "Citer", "profil", "mp", etc. If they are in French, try to add _en before the .gif, or try to reinstall this styles in Styles > Choose your styles. If it doesn't work, this means the style isn't translated to English yet.

Thanks for your collaboration.

Cordially
Forumotion Staff

Something that has always bothered me was the Who is Online ?

1. Who is Online ?
2. Who is online?
3. Information box

Thanks for helping

I'm in charge of the translation, well actually correcting what was already done
So if you find any errors I might of missed, it will be a pleasure correcting them!

This page: http://www.forumactif.com/index_en.htm

Galery + calandar

Should be: Gallery + Calendar

thank you Mr X, we are going to correct this mistake.

Ah yes sorry, another mistake I found on the same page as before:

Renforced security >> Should be Reinforced security

Well, here's something that's a bit off.



You may want to change it to something like...

You are not registered, would you like to register?

something i noticed today

admin>>>general>>>homepage>>>headers

it says logo positionning. It should be logo positioning with one 'n'

thanks I'll modify this straight away

Cjanz wrote:Well, here's something that's a bit off.



You may want to change it to something like...

You are not registered, would you like to register?

Yes everything ive noticed has been right,this bothered me.Maybe you should add a "?" after Do you want to register

I've noticed that some of the wording is sexist it will have himself instead of he/she/.

Mr X wrote:This page: http://www.forumactif.com/index_en.htm

Galery + calandar

Should be: Gallery + Calendar

Also than you need changes here (http://forumotion.com)



Capitals

Also,when a user is online it says:

En Ligne
It should be: Online
Occurs in posts

EDIT:Image Added:

Hello everyone!

Ok, I found something... Look at the picture below:


Isn't it "Portal", not "Portail"

@ Random:

That is because you schoosed the Frech button. Follow these steps to make it be Online:

• Admin CP
  
• Styles
  
• Pictures and Colors
  
• List of Pictures
  
• "Buttons" Tab
  
• In the list find "Online"
  
• Click on "See exapmles"
  

If you still can not find the button in english, than the theme you have choosen has only French buttons. But I don't tihnk so.

Greets

Thank you! ^^

Hi,

You're welcome. Will someone do sometihng about these mistakes I found??

Greetings,
Lazar

Bump

Will someone do something about these mistakes I found??

its the weekend raph i am sure it will be sorted during the course of next week

pretty much peanuts, but i noticed a wrong line-break in the forum-rules page when you register:

visible here: http://dotd-stars.darkbb.com/profile.forum?mode=register

- If you post informations who come from another site
, look first if the site in question doesn’t forbid it. Show the address of the site in question in order to respect the work of their administrators !

~Sunny

Random wrote:Also,when a user is online it says:

En Ligne
It should be: Online
Occurs in posts

EDIT:Image Added:

Before posting, you should have read my post above, it said this :

Katt wrote:We ask you to not post an error report if the error is one of these followings :

1. Having "Parcourir" when you upload a file/picture, and "Envoyer" when you use the founder's utils. In these two cases, this comes from your browser's language. So, if your browser is in French, these buttons will be in French. If your browser is in English, the buttons will be in English.
   
2. Buttons (nav links or messages buttons) in French such as "Citer", "profil", "mp", etc. If they are in French, try to add _en before the .gif, or try to reinstall this styles in Styles > Choose your styles. If it doesn't work, this means the style isn't translated to English yet.

Hello

One more error I found... It's not error, but it would be better if you switch places

Because you wrote it Right and Left. I think it will look much better if you switch places

At the begging sorry if this is only for English errors.
I want to say about Macedonian Error.
Here is it:



1. "Чл??:" needs to be "Член:"
2. Is in english

First look carefully at the topic title:

Help us : Spelling/Grammar/Structure Errors in ENGLISH

Template edition should be Template editing

So anyone???

New errors I found while I was creating a forum on Mike's testboard for website design discussion (we are building a design for a friend).

Sort the topics by => Sort topics by
Topic's post's date (most recent in first) => Topic's posts' date (newest first)
Topic's post's date (most oldest in first) => Topic's posts' date (oldest first)
Topic's creation date (most recent in first) => Topic's creation date (newest first)
Topic's creation date (most oldest in first) => Topic's creation date (oldest first)
Number of views (the most consulted in first) => Number of views (most viewed first)
Number of views (the least consulted in first) => Number of views (least viewed first)
Number of answers (most popular in first) => Number of replies (most popular first)
Number of answers (least popular in first) => Number of replies (least popular first)
Post's date (most oldest in first) => Post's date (oldest first)
Post's date (most recent in first) => Post's date (newest first)

My explanation :
- "in first" sounds too French. We should say "first", not "in first" when we talk about an element we want it to have priority.
- "sort the topics by" : This is another common mistake in French people, putting "the" everywhere. In this context, "the" is not necessary.
- "most oldest" is a kind of repetition. When we say "oldest", we already say that nothing can be older than this thing, so saying "most oldest" is weird.
- "most recent" has more sense, but I say newest, just to be more in harmony with my correction for "most oldest".
- "answers" : In the context, "replies" is more appropriated.
- "most consulted/least consulted" : "consulted" is not very appropriated for the context, so I replaced it by "viewed".


That's all for now.

Random wrote:Also,when a user is online it says:

En Ligne
It should be: Online
Occurs in posts

EDIT:Image Added:

actually its meant to be like that go to admin -> Styles -> Pictures and Colors -> Modify the pictures -> Topics & Posts -> then scroll down and you will see where the online is supposed to be click it and change it from there

Sunny_D wrote:pretty much peanuts, but i noticed a wrong line-break in the forum-rules page when you register:

visible here: http://dotd-stars.darkbb.com/profile.forum?mode=register

- If you post informations who come from another site
, look first if the site in question doesn’t forbid it. Show the address of the site in question in order to respect the work of their administrators !

In addition to what Sunny_D posted in regards to the registration forum rules, there are a few grammar mistakes. I will type out each individual correction that needs to be made, but I will also post the entire corrected version at the end of this post to make it easier for whoever is going to correct this. So they can just copy and paste it.

In this sentence besides the line break that Sunny mentioned, the wording should be changed.

Original
If you post informations who come from another site
, look first if the site in question doesn’t forbid it.

Changed to
If you post information's that comes from another site, look first if the site in question doesn’t forbid it.

There is not supposed to be a space between the last letter in the last word of a sentence and the punctuation mark. Here are some that needs to have the space removed.

Show the address of the site in question in order to respect the work of their administrators !

- Please make an effort on grammar and spelling. SMS-style language (ex : r u sk8ing?) is not advised ! (: after ex as well as the !)

By clicking on " I agree to these terms " below :
- You acknowledge to have fully read these current rules ;
- You commit yourself to respect unreservedly these current rules ;

Original
You thus admit that all the messages posted on this forum express the sight and opinion of their respective authors, and not those of the moderators or the Webmaster (except messages posted by themselves) and consequently, they cannot be held responsible of the discussions.

Needs to be changed to: (remove comma after authors) (themselves replaced with them)
You thus admit that all the messages posted on this forum express the sight and opinion of their respective authors and not those of the moderators or the Webmaster (except messages posted by them) and consequently, they cannot be held responsible of the discussions.

Original
These cookies will not contain any personal information, they are only used to improve comfort while browsing.

Change to: (remove comma and replace with semi-colon)
These cookies will not contain any personal information; they are only used to improve comfort while browsing.

Original:
Any message contravening the listing above will be edited or removed without additional notice nor justification within deadlines which will depend on the availability of the moderators.

Change to: (change nor to or)
Any message contravening the listing above will be edited or removed without additional notice or justification within deadlines which will depend on the availability of the moderators.

Original:
We reserve ourselves the possibility of informing your access provider and/or the legal authorities of any malevolent behavior.

FYI: Americans spell it behavior and British spell it behaviour. Interesting.

Original:
IP addresses of each poster is recorded in order to help us to make you respect these conditions.

Change to:
An IP address of each poster is recorded in order to help us to make you respect these conditions.

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To make it easier, I will just post the entire corrected version of the registration forum rules. I did double check my work by running it thru Microsoft's Word. As it has a spell checker and a grammar check. And everything is correct, from what I can see. This way you can just copy and paste the corrected version below.

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Forum’s Terms of service

The moderators of this forum will try hard to edit or remove reprehensible messages as soon as possible. However, it is impossible for them to review all the messages. You thus admit that all the messages posted on this forum express the sight and opinion of their respective authors and not those of the moderators or the Webmaster (except messages posted by them) and consequently, they cannot be held responsible of the discussions.

This forum uses cookies to store information on your computer. These cookies will not contain any personal information; they are only used to improve comfort while browsing. The address e-mail is only used in order to confirm the details of your registration as your password (and also to send you back your password if you forget it).

- Aggressive or slanderous messages, as well as personal insults and critics, the coarseness and vulgarities, and more generally any message contravening the French laws are prohibited.
- Messages who promote - or evoke - illegal practices are prohibited.
- If you post information's that comes from another site, look first if the site in question doesn’t forbid it. Show the address of the site in question in order to respect the work of their administrators!
- Please post your messages only once. The repetitions are unpleasant and useless!
- Please make an effort on grammar and spelling. SMS-style language (ex: r u sk8ing?) is not advised!

Any message contravening the listing above will be edited or removed without additional notice or justification within deadlines which will depend on the availability of the moderators. Any abuse will involve the cancellation of the registration. Internet is neither an anonymous space, nor a space of no-right! We reserve ourselves the possibility of informing your access provider and/or the legal authorities of any malevolent behavior. An IP address of each poster is recorded in order to help us to make you respect these conditions.

By clicking on " I agree to these terms " below:
- You acknowledge to have fully read these current rules;
- You commit yourself to respect unreservedly these current rules;
- You grant the moderators of this forum the right to delete, move or edit any discussion subject at any moment.

thanks for all your help, the modifications have been done and will appear at next update

I think you are "Logged in AS", now "WITH"... But I dunno, this phrase we have is just like I am logged with my friend...



I just think this makes the whole "Word Censores" Tab looks untidy... If "Word Censoring" and "Keyword Censoring" have C in "Censoring" as the capital letter, then why don't C in "Users censoring".... It's not a real grammar mistake, but it really makes look untidy.


I don't know if this is a right section, but the link under "Rescue Tools", is not working for me...