[Koha-translate] Re: [Koha-devel] Disambiguating the string "issue"

[Rachel Hamilton-Williams]

Hi

> I notice in the interface that the term "issue" is used in at least three
> different contexts:
>
>  1) in circulation (i.e. to lend)
>
>  2) in journals as part of a host publication
>
>  3) in administrivia (i.e. a problem or question)
>
> Perhaps this is more suited as a bug report, but would it be possible to pick 
> non-homonymic words for these three concepts?

Hmm - it does make it more difficult for translation I assume? But from 
our perspective at least, "Issues" is actually what the librarians refer 
to those activities as.

I would expect you to translate that into 2 or 3 different words as 
appropriate for your audience - but for our audience at least "issues" 
marries what you see in their library - they have the words "Issues 
Desk" for example over the issues desk.

I agree that for a problem or question "issue" isn't a necessary word - 
there are several others that would do, but I can't see that changing 1 
& 3 would make our users lives any easier.

Cheers
Rachel


> For example, could we say 'lend' or 'loan' for #1,
> and 'problem', 'question', 'incident', or similar for #3
>
> For #2 the only alternative would be 'number', but that's not an option.
>
> -Lars
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