[BUG] German UI: memory-recall activity line reads "Widerrufen einer Erinnerung" (recall mistranslated as "revoke")

Summary

In the German UI, the activity line shown while a memory is being retrieved reads:

Widerrufen einer Erinnerung

recall has been translated as widerrufen, which in German exclusively means to revoke / to retract in the legal sense (revoking a power of attorney, a product recall). It is never used for retrieving something. The line therefore reads as "Revoking a memory" — the opposite of a read operation, and alarming in a context where the user knows the assistant can also write memories.

Expected: Erinnerung abgerufen (or Erinnerungen abgerufen for the plural). If a progressive form is wanted: Erinnerung wird abgerufen.

Environment

• Claude Desktop for Windows 1.30096.1.0 (MSIX), Windows 11 Pro 26200
• Claude Code 2.1.232
• UI language: German

This was already reported — and closed by a bot without a human reply

This exact string was reported on 2026-04-17 in #49791, where it appears verbatim as example 3, with the same diagnosis. What happened to it:

| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 2026-04-17 | Reported, three concrete examples, correction suggestions |
| 2026-05-25 | github-actions[bot] closed it as not planned — "inactive for too long" |
| 2026-07-19 | Bot locked the thread |

No human ever responded. Filing this new issue because the closing comment explicitly asks to do so.

One detail worth the maintainers' attention

In April the line read "Widerrufen eine Erinnerung" (also grammatically wrong: participle in initial position, wrong case). Today it reads "Widerrufen einer Erinnerung" — the case was fixed, the mistranslation was not.

So these strings are being maintained, but apparently by a process that corrects grammar without checking meaning. That points at the pipeline rather than at this one string: recall is ambiguous, and string-level machine translation with no surrounding sentence picks the wrong sense. Other verb labels in the activity feed and permission prompts show the same signature (see #49791, and the related localization reports #82827 and #86189).

Suggestions, in order of value:

1. A glossary for the ambiguous verbs in the activity feed — recall, dismiss, resolve, revert, commit all have a wrong-but-plausible German sense that MT reliably picks.
2. Translate the labels as whole clauses, not tokens; German participle position and case depend on the full sentence.
3. One native-speaker pass over the activity/permission strings. These are the highest-frequency strings in the product — every user sees them dozens of times per session.

Why this one is worth a human look

Filed by a German user who ran into it today, four months after the first report. The awkward part is not the error itself — recall is a genuinely ambiguous word — but that this is a product built on a language model whose UI carries a machine-translation error of a kind the model itself would not make. The fix is presumably a single string. What is surprising is that it survived a prior report, an automated close, and at least one edit to the very same line.