Salve Engin! On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Engin Erenturk wrote:
> In my opinion the translations must be done professionally for such a product > like this. Instead of volunteers who are not professionals, volunteers who > are professionals and volunteer who can provide a professional translation > must localize this product. I localized RSSOwl into Turkish, and I gathered 3 > of my friends and discussed every one of the phrases translated. But in the > end it is not like a professional translation. It's very important to give > the same meaning of the sentence in the localized language instead of pure > translation. Sometimes it is very hard to do such a thing. The best example > is the Microsoft products, even I don't support or like them, they did great > job in localization... They got a big book of meanings of words/phrases which > are used in Microsoft products, books etc. If someone wants to do a > translation for the books etc. they gave this didctionary to them to use it > as reference dictionary... As I said if there are volunteers who are > professionsals and who can localize it with professionals must be found... > I'll try to get in touch with a professional translator who is experienced in > technical translations if there is a need for Turkish localization. I would like to disagre. Open translation has the big advantage that people could give feedback about the translations - many opensource projects include the wikipedia are working without the support of professional translators. Getting in touch with professional translators would help in some rar cases of doubts/dispute. IMHO more important is that the people who translate does know what the software device do at that moment. Some "meta" translation - creating an own specialised dictionary for mobil communications could help to do the translations. Has anybody experiances with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary? Would it possible to join Wiktionary with having a specialised dictionary for mobil communication OpenMoko-Wiktionary? Greetings rob _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
