I also think this will depend. I saw some translation for END into Spanish in a class and it just made harder for me to memorize it for the exam. So I personally prefer to leave some terms just in English or the mnemonic and the detailed explanation translated or explained
On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 20:47 Miika Turkia <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 5:57 AM, Dirk Hohndel <[email protected]> wrote: > > One of the downsides of using GitHub is that a lot of discussions tends > to > > happen on the pull requests and only those that subscribe to those > > notifications see those... > > > > E.g., on https://github.com/Subsurface-divelog/subsurface/pull/235 there > > is a question about the universal understanding of MOD, END, divelog, > > divespot, setpoint... > > > > Should those be translated at all? > > I am quite sure it depends on the language. I.e. divelog and divespot > I would translate, but MOD, END and setpoint I would not, unless > someone who is familiar with Finnish diving vocabulary tells me what > they actually should be. > > > My experience leads me to believe that they SHOULD be translated because > > there seem to be a lot of divers who aren't familiar with the English > > terms and English abbreviations. > > Having them as translatable strings gives the translator the freedom > to do as he please. I.e. I have just copied over some of the terms and > translated those that I have good terms in Finnish. I have to admit > that it was a problem before I realized that I can do just that. > Anyway, I am quite certain that in some languages it makes sense to > translate them and in some others it does not. > > > What do people here on the list who aren't diving in an English speaking > > context think about that statement? > > Unfortunately I am not familiar at all with the Finnish diving > vocabulary at all, so I wouldn't trust myself too heavily in whatever > I stated above :D > > miika > _______________________________________________ > subsurface mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface > -- ------------------------------ Pablo
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