Hi all, Yesterday I had a very interesting chat with Licia Corbolante, an Italian terminologist and localization specialist. She worked on sw localization for many years.
http://blog.terminologiaetc.it/about/ While I mainly use Subsurface in English language I helped translating in Italian :) IMHO the main problem wasn't translating a term or a sentence but trying to be coherent on the whole program with the same translation and trying to use a widely accepted terminology thus the same terms/sentences used in other mainstream products getting a professional all round work. She pointed out three useful sources for people involved in localization: Microsoft Language Portal: http://www.microsoft.com/Language/en-US/Default.aspx The above is simply amazing. You can find all the terminology used by MS in their product and in every language. Try for yourself. TAUS Data is a super cloud for the global translation industry, helping to improve translation quality, automation and fuel business innovation. https://www.tausdata.org/ Last but not the least: Linguee is a unique translation tool combining an editorial dictionary and a search engine with which you can search hundreds of millions of bilingual texts for words and expressions. Compared to traditional online dictionaries, Linguee contains about 1,000 times more translated texts, which are displayed in full sentences. Linguee shows translations for expressions such as "strong evidence", "strong relationship" or "strong opinion", and even for rare expressions or specific technical terms. Linguee takes a different approach: You do the translating yourself, but you can use Linguee to find out how other people have solved tricky translation problems. As a result, you can single-handedly produce a much better translation than any other computer program. http://www.linguee.com/english-german/page/about.php I hope these could help people involved in Subsurface localization to obtain more professional translations. Bye -- Davide https://vimeo.com/bocio/videos _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list [email protected] http://lists.hohndel.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
