Hi :)
It might sound contra-intuitive but it might  really help if a few native 
English speakers could join the international translators team.  Preferably 
English (US) but even my (GB) seems to have been a big help.  


Even people that don't speak any other language other than English could help 
quite a lot.  Quite a lot of the internal descriptions were written by 
non-natives and/or geeks so the international translators team is now trying to 
proof-read the English and smooth-out oddly convoluted or nonsensical or even 
just things that look right but somehow feel wrong (or the other way around).  


Their list uses English for posting to the list so you really don't need a 2nd 
language in order to be a huge help there.  

Actually the same thing probably applies to other languages too.  If you only 
speak one language then you could still probably help a lot.  It's just that 
almost all translations seem to be done from the English so it's more crucial 
to get that one right or at least easier to read.  



Err there was the old joke about 

Q1:  "What do you call a person that can speak lots of languages?"
A1:  "Multilingual" (or Polyglot of course)

Q2:  "What do you call someone that can only speak 1 language?"
A2:  "English"  (or Japanese too apparently, as a Japanese buddy was telling me 
(in English))


Anyway, this is one time that even if that is true you can still help the 
translators team.  

Thanks and regards from 
Tom :)  

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