Hello all,
today, I've written a mail to fsfe-de regarding a problem with the German translation of the campaign headline (it's not yet confirmed, I currently use my work mail account). After reading MJ Ray's message through pipermail (I have not subscribed to discussion@...), I realize now that we have a problem with the campaign title in English, too. I'm not that good at English, so please correct me if I'm wrong.
When we speak about someting, we refer _either_ to its meaning _or_ to the term itself. It's unclear what "speaking _about_" something refers to.
I don't know whether "talking of sth." is the right wording so that it's clear that we talk about the term "Free Software", not its meaning.
In German, Wolfgang translated it as "über etw. sprechen", not "von etw. sprechen", which would be the way in German to avoid that ambiguity.
Comments by English native speakers highly appreciated.
Bye, Christian