po: Revise Russian translation

[Nikolay Sivov]

On 4/6/2014 06:55, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
> Nikolay Sivov <bunglehead at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>>> Looks good. I especially like changes like these:
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>> -msgstr "Пожалуйста, выберите файл."
>>>> +msgstr "Выберите файл."
>>> No, this doesn't match the original english text.
>> I matches okay and sounds better. Verb form is already in plural which
>> makes 'please' redundant.
> 'Please' is never redundant, please don't invent new rules. Or should I omit
> 'please' here?
No, you can't. There's no way to express it in English, don't be silly. 
Suggested form is shorter and has exactly same meaning - politely asks 
to do something.
>
>> Same thing as for 'Вы' garbage when used to
>> address one person.
> Oh, probably one should ask how well did you learn Russian in school.
You sure you got what I mean?
>
>>>    Some other translations
>>> don't match either, for instance
>>>
>>>>    "This large number of copies is not supported by your printer.\n"
>>>>    "Please enter a value between 1 and %d."
>>>>    msgstr ""
>>>> -"Такое большое количество копий не может быть напечатано вашим принтером.\n"
>>>> +"Такое большое количество копий не может быть напечатано этим принтером.\n"
>>>>
>> What you mean? 'your' translated literally is out of place here. Article
>> or a possessive pronoun before a noun is not a requirement in Russian,
>> as I'm sure you know. In this particular phase it would be enough to say
>> 'не поддерживается принтером'. No need to literally match English variant.
> 'your printer' and 'this printer' have two distinct and different meanings,
> please avoid inventing new traslation rules unless you have a degree in this
> area.
Could we talk about this particular case instead of making 
generalizations or discussing degrees? Thing is distinction is not 
important here, 'your' exists in English variant because it has to.