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The Monday 2006-04-24 at 17:23 -0700, Andreas wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 25.04.2006, 01:32 +0200 schrieb Carlos E. R.:
>
> > If there are so few writers and translators, perhaps there is something
> > wrong that don't attract these people to help. So, something has probably
> > got to be done to attract them. One of my guess is that good translators
> > translate for a living and are not interested in working for free (as in
> > beer).
>
> I don't know about "good".
Me neither :-P
It more difficult to translate than it seems. I can read, write, talk in
English quite fluently, but I find it quite difficult to translate to
Spanish or viceversa. Compounding things, the price of a good technical
translating dictionary (in paper) is in the 100 Eur range. For
english-german-english, you have advantage over me: there are good tools
in linux. For spanish... ugh.
> Anyhow, I would like to do some translation
> work for an open source project too, but then again, taking a look at a
> random man page frustrates more than anything: Even for a native English
> speaker, who is not exactly a Linux-buff though, the average man page is
> simply gibberish (try man mount, or - for the real brave - man rpm)
It is the technical side of how to edit a man page that still scares me.
> And what helps a translation of an outdated or plain wrong
> documentation.
True enough.
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Cheers,
Carlos Robinson
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