Re: Translation

2003-10-05 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 00:28, Peyman wrote:
 Persian has one of the most productive word formation systems.

I would appreciate seeing some statistics to back that up, like you have
done with the verbs. Do you have any?

roozbeh


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Re: Translation

2003-10-05 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 12:29, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
 Well, you're probably right, but then the suffixes are going to
 lose all their meaning as a suffix.  After a while there would be
 no common sense between words ending with ak... (and yes, there
 would be no suffix, some new words).

Guest what? The suffixes have already lost their meanings. This same
-ak is a good example. You want language control and mathematical
semantics, which is more than impossible with a language like Persian,
IMHO.

 -gaan is not anything special, it's just aan for plural,
 joined to a word ending with hah-e naamalfooz.  Just like
 saadegaan.  So it means datas.  But again AFAIK data and
 daade are both plurals.  Don't know about paadegaan.

I am sorry, I am not talking about *that* -gaan. I'm *only* talking
about the -gaan in paadegaan.

  That's an abbreviation: FTP = gharaardaad-e enteghaal-e parvande:
  gheyn, alef, pe. If you have problems with abbreviations, don't
  use them.
 
 And write gharaardaad-e enteghaal-e parvande everywhere?

Write FTP if you like, or whatever you prefer. Go with fetepe if you
like that. Or call it chiz ;-)

You're definitely not bound by any of the requirements of the Academy.

  This is the translation of the Redo menu, not the action of
  redo-ing. I agree that it's not that good, but I've not seen many good
  ones. Your suggestion?
 
 az no reminds me of reset in forms.  dobaare and tekraar
 may have the same meaning as az no, but do it better, again
 IMHO.

At last something I can pass. I'll ask the guys.

 * scroll - navardidan!
 
  The problem? Your suggestion?
 
 navardidan is completely another word, isn't?  It do not hold
 the feeling of rolling in a single direction, and it contains a
 sense of a challenge, that cannot be ignored.  My suggestion?
 Good question.

OK, from my Moaser Persian Dictionary: [adabi] dar mohit, mantaghe, yaa
masiri harekat kardan va az noghte-i be noghte-ye digar-e aan raftan.

I can't see the sense of challenge there. I agree that it's not
scrolling exactly, but what translation has the exact senses of its
original word? Time will give all the senses to it.

 * output (device) - khorooji
   (Isn't khorooji also a noun in Persian?)
 
  It's *only* a noun in Persian, as far as I can tell. I'm not getting
  what you mean. Would you explain? From what I get, is that they are
  translating the output of a program as boroon-daad, but an output
  device as dastgaah-e khorooji.
 
 Exactly.

What is the problem then?

 The problem is that, they are misusing their power to decide for
 the language!

They have been asked to do so. We need an authority for the language.
American English has Merriam-Webster, British English has Oxford, German
has Duden, and French has its Academie. They are trying their best to
provide authority. As far as I can tell, they are coming to a point of
good output.

Well, I could never ever think about defending the Academy, but I'm
doing that. Why? First, because they're having some good-enough output
(which, well, you don't agree to, which I can understand). But second,
because I've seen the anarchy out here, everyone considering
himself/herself the authority, without even consulting the references.
Haven't you? Aren't we on the same front exactly because of that?

 You and I could have been decide on many
 technicall matters, and spread it all around the world by coding
 that here and there.  But we have never done that so to decide
 for others.

We have never done that, since we know our work is not authoritative
enough. Because it has not been the result of a consensus of experts.
Academy's output is partially the result of such a consensus.

 Better the propose words and wait some 5 or 10
 years, and decide if that can be settled.  rayane is setteled
 down.  But the way they do it, they force many bodies to follow
 their word.

Well, these are not exactly *new* words. The words have been around and
used for a long time by some translators. ISI's word list (masterminded
by Dr Mashayekh) is the main source for these, as is Mohammadifar's
Computer Dictionary (published by Moaser), and the entrepreneurial works
of Dr Rohani-Rankoohi and Dr Badi', all of whom are members of the
computer terms committee (with a few other people). I can't say they
haven't seen all the references: they have. I've talked all of them (but
Dr Rohani-Rankoohi) on different matters, and I know they don't move an
inch in these waters without contacting every reference they can find on
the matter.

It's easy to start calling them fossils, as we young people love to
do, and close their dossier so easily, but we need to separate real work
from just inventing random words (like some people we know have been
doing). I really believe you should provide feedback to the Academy, and
see what reasons they have.

I'm meeting Dr Mashayekh (the head of the computer terms committee) to
talk on exactly the same subject this Wednesday morning. I promise I
forward 

Re: Translation

2003-10-04 Thread Arash Zeini
On Saturday 04 October 2003 03:59, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:

 Hi,

 You know that the 'book' in 'bookmark' is refering to the
 book/n/, not book/v/.  The original word bookmark/v/ is kind of
 tricky, as it's not listed in dictionaries, and is a invented to
 be used in browsers.  BTW, the standard Persian translation for
 bookmark/n/ is choob-alef.  It may seem weird, but better we
 stick with it and spread it around, instead of replacing with a
 new word.  I remember the word was there back in early 90s in
 Persian MS Windows 3.1s.  And perhaps bookmark/v/ can be
 translated as choob-alef gozaashtan or literally choob-alef
 gozaardan.


 behdad

This is exactly how we have translated bookmark for FarsiKDE.

Greetings,
Arash
 On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Ali A Khanban wrote:
  It seems to me something like sabt-e neshaani for bookmark is more
  relevant, if we look at the meaning and also think of book as
  register. So for bookmark this page we may say neshaani-ye in
  safhe raa sabt konid.
 
  -ali-
 
  Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
  Does any one knows a translation forBOOKMARK orBOOKMARK THIS
   PAGE in Persian?
  
  neshaane safheh or neshaane ketab?
  
  I don't know if such a phrase is actually in common use.  Reminds me
   of my highschool physics teacher trying to explain where the word
   shaar (a replacement for flux) came from.  After thinking about
   it, he said,  it comes from Farsie be pedar o madar.
  
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Re: Translation

2003-10-04 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:

 On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 11:05, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
[snip my .02]
  So you mean ghaltak means abzaar-e ghalt-zadan??

 I'm sorry, but language is not that exact, neither I am an expert in
 these. ghaltak means abzaar-e ghalt-zan. neshaanak may mean
 abzaar-e neshaan-zan (not exactly, yes).

 Also, these suffixes do not exactly bring a meaning with themselves,
 contrary to what we've been learning in high school. The -ak in
 sorkhak and zardak is just a suffix that creates a noun out of an
 adjective. In ghaltak and probably kaardak, it just makes a tool out
 of something else. Just don't try to be productive in the old sense,
 trying to assign exact meanings to each postfix and prefix.

Well, you're probably right, but then the suffixes are going to
lose all their meaning as a suffix.  After a while there would be
no common sense between words ending with ak... (and yes, there
would be no suffix, some new words).

[snip again]
  Unfortunately I'm loosing my last hopes on them.  I can't fight
  for all these silly funny words (just a few of them are quoted):
 
* database - daadegaan

 The relationship of base and -gaan is existing, I guess -gaan
 should have been a widely used postfix in Pahlavi. paadegaan?

-gaan is not anything special, it's just aan for plural,
joined to a word ending with hah-e naamalfooz.  Just like
saadegaan.  So it means datas.  But again AFAIK data and
daade are both plurals.  Don't know about paadegaan.

* ftp - ghaap

 That's an abbreviation: FTP = gharaardaad-e enteghaal-e parvande:
 gheyn, alef, pe. If you have problems with abbreviations, don't
 use them.

And write gharaardaad-e enteghaal-e parvande everywhere?  I
like Omid Milani's transliteration for HTML as echtemel, and
XML as iksemel (I prefe eksemel myself though).

* redo - az no

 This is the translation of the Redo menu, not the action of
 redo-ing. I agree that it's not that good, but I've not seen many good
 ones. Your suggestion?

az no reminds me of reset in forms.  dobaare and tekraar
may have the same meaning as az no, but do it better, again
IMHO.

* scroll - navardidan!

 The problem? Your suggestion?

navardidan is completely another word, isn't?  It do not hold
the feeling of rolling in a single direction, and it contains a
sense of a challenge, that cannot be ignored.  My suggestion?
Good question.

  And their inconsistencies:
 
* interface - vaaset, miaanaa
* Graphical User Interface - miaanaa-ye ...
  (miana is the second choice for interface)

 There is still a debate going on over that. vaaset was already
 approved for a term in the Electricity Word-Choosing Group, but the
 Computer group wanted miaanaa. That is not finalized, so they are
 listing both candidates for feedback.

vaaset is so common.  The problem should be kind of Arabic vs
Ferdowsi. ;)

* output (device) - khorooji
  (Isn't khorooji also a noun in Persian?)

 It's *only* a noun in Persian, as far as I can tell. I'm not getting
 what you mean. Would you explain? From what I get, is that they are
 translating the output of a program as boroon-daad, but an output
 device as dastgaah-e khorooji.

Exactly.

  They never bothered themselves to identify nouns and verbs in
  their list.

 They do, in the final published list. They are assuming it's evident
 from the translation. But in this certain case, I agree that they have
 not translated output in the verb sense.

The problem is that, they are misusing their power to decide for
the language!  You and I could have been decide on many
technicall matters, and spread it all around the world by coding
that here and there.  But we have never done that so to decide
for others.  Better the propose words and wait some 5 or 10
years, and decide if that can be settled.  rayane is setteled
down.  But the way they do it, they force many bodies to follow
their word.

 roozbeh

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Re: Translation

2003-10-04 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Skip Tavakkolian wrote:

  vaaset is so common.  The problem should be kind of Arabic vs
  Ferdowsi. ;)

 I find this discussion very educational.  Isn't this problem easier to
 handle in Arabic than in Farsi?  From my limited knowledge of Arabic,
 it seem that, because Arabic's diction and vocabulary are in harmony
 with its grammar, inventing new words are a matter of straight forward
 application of existing rules; that is also exactly the reason why it is
 hard in Farsi.

Exactly, and that's why I don't like these using suffixes for any
random meaning.
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Re: Translation

2003-10-04 Thread Peyman
The problem of new word coinage is not because of
language components (affixes) although Persian has one
of the most productive word formation systems. The
problem for making new words in our language is lack
of simple verbs (as quoted by Dr. Bateni). We have
roughly 340 simple verbs 110 of which is active only.
We normally make compound verbs.
Contrary to Persian, Arabic has the most nonproductive
new word formation systems (but enriched semantics).
e.g. the beautiful word nAtarAvAyi in Persian
(impenetrability) has its equivalent in Arabic as a
sentence lA emkAna qAbeliyat attarashoh. The affixes
in Persian are the most powerful components in our
language.
If you are interested to know the problem you can read
the article FArsi zabAni aqim? by Dr. BAteni.
He is a genius who wrote about these problems 40 years
ago.

Peyman
--- Behdad Esfahbod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
 
   vaaset is so common.  The problem should be
 kind of Arabic vs
   Ferdowsi. ;)
 
  I find this discussion very educational.  Isn't
 this problem easier to
  handle in Arabic than in Farsi?  From my limited
 knowledge of Arabic,
  it seem that, because Arabic's diction and
 vocabulary are in harmony
  with its grammar, inventing new words are a matter
 of straight forward
  application of existing rules; that is also
 exactly the reason why it is
  hard in Farsi.
 
 Exactly, and that's why I don't like these using
 suffixes for any
 random meaning.
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Re: Translation

2003-10-03 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Hi,

You know that the 'book' in 'bookmark' is refering to the
book/n/, not book/v/.  The original word bookmark/v/ is kind of
tricky, as it's not listed in dictionaries, and is a invented to
be used in browsers.  BTW, the standard Persian translation for
bookmark/n/ is choob-alef.  It may seem weird, but better we
stick with it and spread it around, instead of replacing with a
new word.  I remember the word was there back in early 90s in
Persian MS Windows 3.1s.  And perhaps bookmark/v/ can be
translated as choob-alef gozaashtan or literally choob-alef
gozaardan.


behdad

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Ali A Khanban wrote:

 It seems to me something like sabt-e neshaani for bookmark is more
 relevant, if we look at the meaning and also think of book as
 register. So for bookmark this page we may say neshaani-ye in safhe
 raa sabt konid.

 -ali-

 Skip Tavakkolian wrote:

 Does any one knows a translation forBOOKMARK orBOOKMARK THIS PAGE
 in Persian?
 
 
 
 neshaane safheh or neshaane ketab?
 
 I don't know if such a phrase is actually in common use.  Reminds me of
 my highschool physics teacher trying to explain where the word shaar
 (a replacement for flux) came from.  After thinking about it, he said,  it
 comes from Farsie be pedar o madar.
 
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