Hi Tom and all, Thanks for all the great discussion. It does seem like there is significant discussion and interest in this topic. Happy to set up a list! We created ' [email protected]' in TopicBox with our other lists. Anyone can go to that group to sign up for the list and continue the discussion.
https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/curriculum-japanese Best, -Tracy On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 6:16 AM Tom Kelly <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi David, > > I've set up a fork specifically for Japanese here: > > https://github.com/swcarpentry-ja/i18n > > The guidelines are a work in progress so hopefully we can streamline it as > more people get involved and give feedback on how they went setting it up. > At the moment, it's mainly a README as you've suggested. > > Part of the reason, I'm seeking to set up a discussion forum or mailing > list is to co-ordinate these beyond the text issue. The Japanese language > is not so complicated I think. It should be fairly clear what level of > politeness to use for a website or lesson. Conjugations are mainly for > tenses and grammatical purposes. The are no genders, plurals, or articles. > What is more important I think is consistent changes for non-literal > translation (for cultural reasons). For example, I'm not sure Japanese > people will be familiar with the Wolfman and Dracula characters and these > don't need to be explain to understand the lesson. It's easier to change it > to characters Japanese people would know. Now that you mention it, a > glossary might be a good idea too. > > It's a bit of a rush job at the moment to capitalise on interest in > translators joining the project to give them something to try out and get > involved. We can hold off if the system is not quite ready yet. Hopefully, > they can try out translating the actual lesson text and we can merge any > changes needed to handle more than 2 languages and smooth updates or > collaboration. > > Thanks, > > Tom K > *The Carpentries <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/latest>* / discuss / > see discussions <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss> + > participants <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/members> + > delivery > options <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription> > Permalink > <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Tdb042c4bc0ecf365-M89c359b1d485de7a7f7c8cb8> > ------------------------------------------ The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Tdb042c4bc0ecf365-Mb98e75e7577f38cef4171cdb Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
