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Durigo is a mobile app for finding durian sellers and logging sightings of them. People use it to discover durian stalls, trucks, shops and farms near them on a map, see what's in stock and at what price, and rate what they've tasted. The words below appear all over the app, and each one needs to read naturally and mean the same thing everywhere it shows up. For each word you'll see what it means and where people run into it, then my suggested translation. Please correct anything that sounds off or unnatural.

We've already settled most of the wording ourselves. This page only asks about the few spots where we're still unsure, with the neighbouring words shown faded where they help.

  1. When someone is standing at a durian seller, they can log what they see right now: how much is in stock, the price. The app calls this a "Sighting", like spotting a durian out in the wild and jotting it in a notebook. We want the friendly "I spotted it / I found it here" feeling. Please avoid the word for a scary/ghostly apparition or a courtroom eyewitness.

    Word type: a noun. This one matters. The app never uses it as a verb. It appears inside sentences ("Delete sighting?", "Your sighting will be archived", "No sightings yet", "Add your first sighting") as well as on its own as a short label, so please give a word that can sit inside a sentence rather than a phrase that only works on a button. It needs a plural form ("Sightings"), and it also appears lowercase in the middle of a sentence ("Check out this sighting"), so it shouldn't depend on being capitalised.

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    ⚠️ Your call matters most here
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    This word covers a status update someone posts about a store. Does 记录 ('这条记录', '暂无记录', '添加第一条记录') read naturally in Durigo's own sentences? If the app ever gets a History/My-activity screen, would 记录 need to become 现场记录 there to stay distinct from a general activity log?

  2. When someone adds a durian seller to the map, they choose what kind it is. There are four kinds, and the main thing that separates them is whether the seller stays put or moves around, not whether they have walls. Please pick words that carry that difference:

    • Stall: a seller who is always in the same spot, but isn't a building you walk into. An open-air stand, often with a roof, tables and a sign. It's established and has its own identity: buyers can count on finding it there, season after season. Please avoid a word that suggests something informal, temporary, seasonal or that packs up and moves. That sense belongs to "Truck" below, and the two must not blur.
    • Truck: a seller who does not stay put, here today, somewhere else tomorrow, and often only around during durian season. Usually a literal vehicle (this is the slot for the pickup that parks by the roadside at night), so please keep the vehicle sense in the word.
    • Shop: a permanent walk-in shop inside a real building, with walls and a door (anything from a small store up to a supermarket)
    • Farm: the place where durian is grown (an orchard or grove), not a general farm

    Two things to watch: please make sure "Shop" here is a different word from the general "Store" word above; and if your language has a word that means roughly "a small permanent open-air stand" as opposed to "a trader's temporary pitch", the first one is what "Stall" wants.

    Word type: labels only. These four are the choices in a picker and the kind shown on a seller's profile, not sentence text. They only have to work on their own, and short is good.

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    ⚠️ Your call matters most hereTruck
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    榴莲车 ('durian truck') trades label parallelism (摊位/货车/门店/果园 → 摊位/榴莲车/门店/果园) for unambiguous clarity that this is the seller's own vehicle, not a delivery lorry. Does breaking the four-way parallelism read as inconsistent, or does the extra clarity win?
    Shop
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    门店 avoids 店面's slightly recursive 'shop-frontage of a shop' reading, but in business writing it can suggest a branch of a chain. Does it read as a plain independent shop in everyday use, or too corporate for a single durian seller?

  3. The real owner of a durian store can "claim" it in the app so they can manage it. To prove the store is really theirs, three different customers scan a QR code to confirm them. That's "verifying". Once confirmed, the owner gets a "Verified owner" badge.

    • Claim = saying "this store is mine" (like registering ownership). NOT an insurance claim, NOT claiming a prize.
    • Verify / Verified = the community confirming someone really is the owner (a trust thing, not an ID or document check).
    • Verified owner = the badge they earn.

    Word types: please give every form your language needs. "Claim" has to work both as a noun and as a verb: as a noun in "My claims", "No claims yet", "Cancel claim?", "Claim moderation"; as a verb in "Claim this store" and "Store claimed". "Verify" needs three forms: the verb ("Verify", "when three customers verify it"), the adjective ("Verified", "Verified owner"), and a noun for the act itself ("Verification QR", "Awaiting verification", "a store verification code"). If those are different words in your language, please write each one.

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    Verify / verification
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    验证 is kept for consistency with the Verify/Verified split, but it can read machine-like in customer-facing copy (e.g. '三位顾客验证后...'). Would 确认 ('三位顾客确认') sound warmer without losing the process/status distinction from 认证?

  4. After tasting, people give an overall score (roughly 1 to 5 stars) for the whole experience, or for a single durian variety. "Rating" is that overall score, and "Rate" is the button/verb for giving it. Ideally keep this different from "Review" (the full written write-up). They're related but shouldn't be the exact same word.

    Word types: a noun for the score ("Rating") and a verb for the button ("Rate"). Neither appears inside a longer sentence, so both can stay short.

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    Rate (verb)
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    打分 keeps a visible verb/noun split from the Rating noun (评分). 去评分 ('go rate') is the alternative if you'd rather stay on one shared root. Which reads more like a button?

  5. How much durian a seller has left right now, on a simple scale from none to lots. It shows up as a small badge, so shorter is better. "Moderate" just means a middling amount, nothing to do with prices or fairness.

    Word type: labels only. These four are the steps of a selector and a small badge rather than sentence text, so they only have to work on their own.

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    Low
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    不多 is the colloquial pick over 仅剩少量 (fuller, more explicit) and 快卖完 (a prediction, more stall-like but casual). Does 不多 read clearly as 'low stock' alone on a compact map badge?

  6. How ripe the durian is, shown on a 7-step slider from unripe to spoiled. These are steps on one scale, so they should read as a smooth progression, not seven unrelated words. Please use words that are specifically about ripeness where you can: if a word also hints at texture or something else, lean toward the one that's mostly about how ripe it is (but if no clean word exists, that's okay).

    Word type: labels only. These are the steps of a slider and small on-screen labels, not sentence text, so they only have to work on their own, and shorter is better.

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    ⚠️ Your call matters most hereSlightly ripe
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    Does 初熟 read as a real ripeness stage, or as an invented/awkward term? (Durigo's priority Chinese-speaking markets are Malaysia and Singapore, so a Malaysian or Singaporean read matters more here than a mainland one.)
    Very ripe
    Outside the slider's own context — in a listing chip or filter pill, say — does 熟透 still read as 'very ripe / past peak'? Or could it read as 'perfectly ripe' there instead?

  7. Short day-of-week labels shown in a compact weekly opening-hours row. Please use the normal short day names in your language, kept as short as they usually are.

    Word type: labels only. Seven short labels in a row, nothing else around them.

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    Mon
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    周一 replaces the bare numeral 一 for Monday (matching 周二...周日 for the rest of the week) — clearer on its own, but doubles the width of every day abbreviation in the compact weekly-hours row. Does the row still fit comfortably at twice the character count?

  8. Tiny labels showing how long ago someone last reported something at a durian seller, like "5m" (5 minutes ago), "3h" (3 hours ago), "2d" (2 days ago). This is elapsed time: "X ago", not a countdown, not distance, and not a calendar date. Space is tight, so short is welcome, but natural wins over short: if your language doesn't abbreviate time units in this situation, please give the normal words rather than a clipped form invented to save space. We'll make room. (This is a real correction: Chinese, for instance, uses the full words for "X ago" and only abbreviates in countdowns.)

    Word type: labels only. Each one sits directly after a number and nothing else.

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    m (minutes)
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    分钟前 makes clear this is elapsed time rather than a duration (a bare '5分钟' could otherwise read as 'for 5 minutes'). Given how tight the badge's width already is for Chinese (full words, not single characters), does 分钟前 still fit comfortably on the last-seen badge?

  9. How much water is in the durian flesh, on a 5-step scale from dry to wet. Neither end is good or bad. Both are just what the fruit is like; please don't pick words that sound like praise or complaint at either end.

    Only the two ends (Dry, Wet) are settled. The three words in between are genuinely open. Please suggest whatever reads most natural to you as a smooth step between them, rather than translating my placeholder English literally. If your language has a natural way to describe this that doesn't map to exactly five steps, say so in the notes.

    Word type: labels only. These sit on a slider and as small on-screen labels, never inside a sentence, so shorter is better.

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    Wet
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    很湿 is the plain, symmetric pick for the wet end. 水多 ('lots of water') is the more colloquial alternative durian sellers and buyers actually say, at a small cost to the 很/偏/适中/偏/很 symmetry. Which reads more natural on a slider label?

  10. How fatty and heavy the durian flesh feels on the palate (think butter or cream), on a 5-step scale from light to rich. NOT sweetness, and not how strong the flavor is. Those are separate questions. Neither end is good or bad.

    Only the two ends (Light, Rich) are settled. The three words in between are genuinely open. Please suggest whatever reads most natural to you as a smooth step between them, rather than translating my placeholder English literally. If your language has a natural way to describe this that doesn't map to exactly five steps, say so in the notes.

    Word type: labels only. As with the other sliders, these are on-screen labels rather than sentence text, so shorter is better.

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    Rich
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    偏厚 only reads clearly with the slider titled 油脂感 or 厚重感 — bare 厚/轻 are too abstract alone. 偏厚重 is the more 'tasting-note' register alternative. Does 偏厚 read naturally under whichever title the slider ships with?

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