[Gretl-devel] Re: translation questions

On Fri, 13 Aug 2021, Sven Schreiber wrote: > > - "Feature border width:" Not sure what "feature" is in this context, > although I understand that it's about geoplot. A "feature", in GeoJSON lingo, is a region, a portion of territory. This setting is used to tweach the linewidth of borders.

> - "Folds:" (in the regls cross validation context I believe) I know what > it is, but I'm looking for a good translation, if anybody has an idea. > (Hints about other languages may also be helpful.) The German wikipedia > entry for cross validation didn't give me a clue. > > [More background, if you care about it: On the web I've sometimes read > "Falte(n)", which I believe is a wrong substantivization of the verb > "falten" (= to fold) -- because "Falte" actually means "wrinkle". For > now I put in the different substantivization "Faltung(en)"; ISI suggest > that for "folding" > (https://www.isi-web.org/isi.cbs.nl/glossary/term1286.htm), but it > doesn't have "fold(s". Another alternative might be the literal > translation of "sample parts".] In the Italian translation I used "Fold (sottocampioni):" which is a good compromise IMO