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Common words translation sheet for indie game developers.
- kozlovsky 14y ago"You need permission to access this item"
- kolinko 14y agoDone by my friend, I think it may be quite useful to some of the iOS devs out there.
- DrinkWater 14y agoI would be careful with this, needs definitely some revisions. (at least the English and German columns )
- itafroma 14y agoIndeed. An easy tell for English that isn't written by a native is a space before the closing punctuation (e.g., "Collect Your Prize Now !") and that's present on a few of the entries.
- wololo 14y agoif anyone else is curious: "It's a common typo by French (because in French, there is a white space before a question/exclamation mark)" "in most Indian schools, English grammar is taught from a book that was originally authored by two Englishmen: PC Wren and H Martin. The earlier editions of the book (including the one that I own) has a space before the following punctuation marks are used: question mark, exclamation mark, dash (em dash), colon and semi-colon" --http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/4645/is-it-ever-correct-to-have-a-space-before-a-question-or-exclamation-mark http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/4645/is-it-ever-c...
- tinco 14y agoI corrected some Dutch sentences too, whoever wrote them was not particularily good at Dutch. Anyway, it's just for games. For a free translation I think many indie devs would be very happy with this.
- pasiaj 14y agoSeems quite specific for "common words". I imagine someone wants to crowdsource their translations. Well, no harm done to anyone.
- mkilling 14y agoSome of the English phrases sound a little off to me: "You can download FREE game NOW" - is it "you can download A free game now" (this is what the German translation says right now) or "you can now download THIS game for free"?
- MasterScrat 14y agoThat would do a nice service: crowdsourced translations specific to various game styles, with a rating system to have more reliable results + a simple API.
- kabouseng 14y agoWhere can I reply to to help fill in some of the missing words? I can do the Afrikaans section for you.
- mootothemax 14y agoReasons why translations are never simple #5322, Polish edition: "You have won..." -> "Właśnie wygrałeś..." Wygrałeś is fine if the player's a man. Otherwise, for a woman, wygrałeś needs an A instead of the E: wygrałAś There are lots of pitfalls like this in Slavic languages, and I imagine in many others. Speaking as an English developer, the first time you implement a proper translation can be a painful - not to mention enlightening - experience.
- kalleboo 14y agoSo does all Polish software ask for you gender the first thing you do when you log in?
- mootothemax 14y agoSo does all Polish software ask for you gender the first thing you do when you log in? I don't know - one of these days I'll finally get the guts to change my laptop's language to Polish. Fortunately, this rule only applies to the past and future tenses, so you're safe if you can keep to present tense. The only translations I've worked with have been Facebook-based, where, by and large, the person's gender is already known. Elsewhere, I've seen things written in a bit of a hacky manner, e.g. the above written as: Właśnie wygrałeś/aś.
- wielebny 14y agoIt's quite common to write in asexual form, like 'Wygrana!'. Also there are a lot more pitfalls regarding slavic languages, for example in polish, there are few plural forms (2 users, 8 users = 2 użytkownicy, 8 użytkowników, etc).
- mootothemax 14y agoIt's quite common to write in asexual form, like 'Wygrana!'. Isn't "Wygrana" just the noun, rather than a verb? So the nearest equivalent in English would be "Win!" rather than "You Won"? When you first mentioned "asexual form," I was thinking something like "Wygrało," but "It Won!" sounds a bit impersonal to me. Not sure whether that's better or worse than assuming the reader's male. Also there are a lot more pitfalls regarding slavic languages, for example in polish, there are few plural forms That's an incredibly fun one. If it ends in 2, 3 or 4 and isn't 12, 13 or 14, you use the nominative plural ending, otherwise the genitive plural ending. At least... I think that's for nouns in nominative and accusative cases, right? My head quickly starts spinning when I think about these.
- raverbashing 14y agoThere is no 'j' in italian (for 'Congratulations') They probably mean 'Congratulazioni' Oh and the Portuguese column is fine, but don't try it in Brazil, go for the 'Brazilian Portuguese' instead
- bromagosa 14y agoIf the English column is full of mistakes... how can you rely on the translations?
- zozu 14y agoI'm translating a lot of the Dutch blank spots. I hope it will be helpfull for at least one person.
- aquarin 14y agoMicrosoft have Language Portal with a lot of technical terms translations in a multiple languages. It gives you the translations in different context too. http://www.microsoft.com/Language/en-US/Default.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/Language/en-US/Default.aspx
- bladum 14y agoHi, I am the owner of the file. Please tell me what you like to do with this file inside file via comments etc. We can create form for submit new files or add specific people to manage single language etc. I am you at your disposal. Bladum
- bladum 14y agoFile is online for 26 hours now :) I am force to make file private due to google server limitations. Still can use it but after using gmail account. Bladum
- druml 14y agoThere are variants of the written Chinese languages and they are used in different regions. E.g. Simplified Chinese characters are used in Mainland China, while Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan are still using Traditional Chinese Characters. Also, different Chinese speaking regions have subtly different vocabularies. E.g. Software is translated as 軟體 in Taiwan, while in Hong Kong it is 軟件. I guess there are similar issues for Spanish in Spain and Spanish in Mexico.
- Tomdarkness 14y agoAnyone else having trouble viewing this? I just get: "We're sorry, but you have sent too many requests to us recently. Please try again later."
- bladum 14y agoGuys, i am the owner, i am trying to setup it properly but Google docs is not designer to work well with many non-signed users.
- martinml 14y agoAs you obviously know, in English phrases like "share an achievement" can be imperative or infinitive. Chances are it's the latter, since the former usually is preceded by "please". In Spanish (and I guess that in most european languages), these two forms are different. Because of that, almost all software that was translated to Spanish (especially mobile apps) mixes this two forms and order the user to do something ("hey you! open this file! copy this text!") instead of using the infinitive form. This was no exception. "Share an achievement" has been translated for "comparte un logro" (although "share on facebook" and other phrases were translated correctly). As a developer, you should provide context for the strings ("label of a button that if clicked allows the user to share an achievement" vs "label asking the user to share an achievement"). Gettext and similar translation systems provide a way to do this. Software translations are hard. I had to set my phone to English because most translations are wrong and many are barely understandable.
- bladum 14y agothat is why i put CATEGORY as a fist column. This is for context purpose.
- nsxwolf 14y agoI don't have permission to view this?
- melling 14y agoI'm building a dictionary for my iOS Spanish app. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/h4-spanish-lite/id388918463?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/h4-spanish-lite/id388918463?... I'm paying some people to translate my Spanish/English words to French/Mandarin/German/Italian/Korean/Japanese/Russian. If people get the proper English expressions in, I can have these people go over the sheets and try to fill in some of the blanks.