Wow! Those are some obscure pages! Yes, they do look as though they have not been as thoroughly ironed-out as some other pages although i am sure we are so hasty right now that errors are possible everywhere.
I have to say that government documents tend to be hideously full of cliches and buzz-words (oops is that old now?) and grotesquely long meandering sentences that end up being almost completely meaningless. Almost like academic papers but tending to induce winces at tautologies and mixed metaphors. By contrast business documents should be 1. short 2. bullet pointed, 4. bad seplings and tpyos 5.Not quite laid out properly 9 inconsistent but very definite! As for the quality of English i think what we have is far better than the quality of English spoken by the vast majority of people here in England. One quick trip down to any council housing estate would make you appreciate the finesse and elegance we have on our website even before proofreading. If you do proofread it down to boring correctness then i am sure it would be appreciated tho :) Good luck and regards from Tom :) PS Wow, that fun :) ________________________________ From: Clayton Walker <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, 29 January, 2011 22:13:22 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Volunteer to Proofread (Starting with the website.) Hm... no, I believe I do mean on libreoffice.org there is some horrible engrish... If we take, for example, http://www.libreoffice.org/home/why-use-libreoffice-at-home/, we read "Make your children's homework!" Moving on, http://www.libreoffice.org/home/why-use-libreoffice-in-business/ has many classics, such as "You'll never lose any document!" or "You can exploit your email (Outlook/Thunderbird) data in business operations." Really? Exploit? I mean come on. Just one more click away, on what is probably my favorite page, http://www.libreoffice.org/home/why-use-libreoffice-in-government/, we have this wonderful sentence, and I quote, "which protects from obsolescence of protocol... ...for a long time and still be readable in future." I must congratulate whoever wrote this (and I sincerely mean that with no hint of sarcasm) on their... attempt to write properly, however it PAINS me to have to read such writing on a website... advertising document creation. Almost ironic, in a sense. Also, that about Google Translate was a joke. So, as I was saying earlier, the grammar on the libreoffice.org site is atrocious, and I'd be happy to volunteer my time to fix it. -Clayton (Town of Clay) Walker On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Jeremy Cartwright <[email protected]>wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:42:55 +0100 > Clayton Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > How does one volunteer to be a proof reader? I'd like to help, because > > the grammar on the libreoffice.org site is kicking my a**. I'd say > > my English is pretty swell, I don't (usually) make mistakes, and I > > certainly don't use Google Translate on the front of a webpage, if > > you know what I'm saying. > > > > To which site might you be referring, I wonder. There are several > sites listed on http://www.libreoffice.org/international-sites/. I'm > not certain as to the usage of a translate tool on any of them. At > any rate, the l10n list >([email protected]<l10n%[email protected]>) > would be more > appropriate to address your concerns, and offer your services, regarding > translation. > > > -- jdc > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to >[email protected]<documentation%[email protected]> > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/documentation/ > *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** > > -- Welcome to my signature! Please note that this signature is licensed under the General Public License. By embedding the signature, or parts of it, into your brain other than by mere aggregation, your brain becomes a combined, and therefore derived, work and thus must be licensed under the GPL too. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/documentation/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/documentation/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
