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The point is that some technical terms like anti-aliasing usually make little sense even when translated well.
by lt 17y ago
The 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.