as a petition from Andre!: Being part of a translation team I always find discussions about what word should be translated into another (Spanish in my case), and witch words should not be translated from English, most of the words are technical words; I would like to gather the thoughts of everyone to compile a list of such words, english to spanish or to any other languaje, like this ones for example:
toggle: in english this is a regural expresion that means the action that comes before you turn something on or of, in the case of spanish that action does not exist and as so we need the toggle on or toggle off in order to translate it correctly, the closest word i could find to interpret this on spanish is "dele" that it could be a very informal push... socket, most of the times sockets are not translated, when we have a word for it that is "ranura", jet sometimes socket is not an actual socket but a virtual socket, making it weird for other languages to choose the translated word for socket, and instead end up using socket... untranslated wrapper, wikipedia as my source, wrapper is not the actual name of the thing, it is actually (i might be wrong) adapter design pattern, then it turned into wrapper pattern and finally made it into wrapper alone. Now that is fine, but some other languages might have a problem with the literal meaning of wrapper, hence we struggle to find a translation or leave it a another tech-term, i have seen it as a technical term and as group of word that make up the meaning of wrapping, like make the text appear at the beginning of the line when it reaches the end of the windows... host, is translated sometimes too, but not all the times and that is an easy one in spanish "anfitrion" jet sometimes it is just host. i know there are other words to add in this list, it might be interesting to find out what others thing and feel about it!, who knows maybe it might be helpful documentation to fix the automatic translators :) _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
