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Years ago when I had nVidia graphics cards, their control panel always displayed the language of your computer's country settings, you got absolutely no option
by henrikschroder 17y ago
Years ago when I had nVidia graphics cards, their control panel always displayed the language of your computer's country settings, you got absolutely no option of selecting the display language yourself.
Needless to say, the controls for overriding anti-aliasing or fog-table or z-buffer settings, translated to my native language, was completely incomprehensible. I still don't understand why they bothered.
- rbanffy 17y agoEnglish could be considered a neutral language, one to fall back when you can't use the right one. That does not forbid nVidia from hiring decent translators. And, BTW, were the software open-source, you could correct the messages for them to make sense..
- lt 17y agoThe point is that some technical terms like anti-aliasing usually make little sense even when translated well.
- xiaoma 17y agoHow so? Say 消除鋸齒 to computer geeks in Taiwan and they'll understand it without difficulty. Say it to non-computer people, and they won't get it... just as English-speaking non-computer people won't understand "anti-aliasing". Assuming you're not talking about languages used by aboriginal groups who don't have computers, how could you translate a term "well" and yet come up with something that makes little sense?
- lt 17y agoI guess some languages are different than others. Some cultures tend to translate pretty much everything (I noticed that in spanish), others accept foreign neologisms. In portuguese we tend to use the english words for technical terms and jargon, sometimes slightly corrupted to fit the grammar. Terms like delete, debug and commit are conjugated in as if they were regular portuguese verbs and used frequently even with acceptable translations existing. Delete in particular is quite common even among non-technical people. For many technical terms, specially newer ones, I can't even think of any acceptable translations without it sounding silly. Most of the time they are left as-is and you need to know the jargon to understand the translation. I much prefer to read technical documents and books in english.
- rbanffy 17y agoJust don't translate the technical terms unless there is a well accepted translation for it. You can translate the rest.