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To be fair it was a beta of the "Ubuntu Netbook Remix" and that bug was shortly fixed. I took some screenshots because I really liked the interface, but none o

by reidrac 12y ago

To be fair it was a beta of the "Ubuntu Netbook Remix" and that bug was shortly fixed. I took some screenshots because I really liked the interface, but none of them show the bug because I usually stick to en_GB and the problem was spotted in my wife's netbook (she's Spanish teacher and likes to have the OS interface in Spanish to amuse the kids).

psykovsky 12y ago
Not attacking free software translators. I'm one myself. As amateur as I can be. When one can't code, it can at least translate ;)
- nitrogen 12y ago
  I only mention this because it occurs in both of your comments in the thread, but... When one can't code, it can at least translate ;) In this context the pronoun "it" would make more sense as "one"; "it" is very rarely used to refer to a person in English. A professional translator makes sure to check the context of the translation, it doesn't go blindly translating sentences and words without context. Again, in this context, "it doesn't" might make more sense as "he or she doesn't", or less formally, "they don't". Hope this helps with your translations :-)
Fuxy 12y ago
Am I the only one that gets confused on what the menus and other things on a non English computer or device actually mean when translated. This coming from someone doesn't speak English as their first language. I speak Romanian, Hungarian and English perfectly but my devices are always in English since it would be harder to figure out what they mean otherwise unless you have the structure memorized already.
- userulluipeste 12y ago
  All things being equal, I guess that's because you accept to pay the necessary price of learning English interfaces of your devices, but do not consider reasonable to pay any learning effort for other languages.
  - TeMPOraL 12y ago
    > but do not consider reasonable to pay any learning effort for other languages One problem is that English is the language majority of technology is created in, and it has developed agreed-on terms for a lot of things. Everyone calls their tabs "tabs" in English, but when it comes to translating, every other app uses a different word. Even if names are consistent within the app, they are inconsistent between each other. This leads to a lot of problems if say, an app reports an error that's related to some OS thing, and calls it with a different translated name than the OS translation does. EDIT: And I'm not making this up. I worked on a localized Ubuntu for a very short while before switching back to English because messages I got in my command line were painfully inconsistent with each other and with agreed-upon proper translations in my language.
- entropy_ 12y ago
  You are definitely not alone in that. My native language is Arabic, but if I switch my phone or computer to Arabic I wouldn't be able to use it. I dread testing translations of apps I'm working on because it forces me to switch to Arabic. It doesn't help that there's a lot of jargon that just doesn't translate that well. For example, the translation of "Tap" to Arabic is the equivalent of either "Peck" or "Perforate". It's just that that's what's generally agreed on as the proper translation and everybody uses it, however, if I didn't know that it would take me a while to figure it out for myself.

by reidrac 12y ago

psykovsky 12y ago

Not attacking free software translators. I'm one myself. As amateur as I can be. When one can't code, it can at least translate ;)

nitrogen 12y ago
I only mention this because it occurs in both of your comments in the thread, but... When one can't code, it can at least translate ;) In this context the pronoun "it" would make more sense as "one"; "it" is very rarely used to refer to a person in English. A professional translator makes sure to check the context of the translation, it doesn't go blindly translating sentences and words without context. Again, in this context, "it doesn't" might make more sense as "he or she doesn't", or less formally, "they don't". Hope this helps with your translations :-)

Fuxy 12y ago

Am I the only one that gets confused on what the menus and other things on a non English computer or device actually mean when translated. This coming from someone doesn't speak English as their first language. I speak Romanian, Hungarian and English perfectly but my devices are always in English since it would be harder to figure out what they mean otherwise unless you have the structure memorized already.

userulluipeste 12y ago
All things being equal, I guess that's because you accept to pay the necessary price of learning English interfaces of your devices, but do not consider reasonable to pay any learning effort for other languages.
- TeMPOraL 12y ago
  > but do not consider reasonable to pay any learning effort for other languages One problem is that English is the language majority of technology is created in, and it has developed agreed-on terms for a lot of things. Everyone calls their tabs "tabs" in English, but when it comes to translating, every other app uses a different word. Even if names are consistent within the app, they are inconsistent between each other. This leads to a lot of problems if say, an app reports an error that's related to some OS thing, and calls it with a different translated name than the OS translation does. EDIT: And I'm not making this up. I worked on a localized Ubuntu for a very short while before switching back to English because messages I got in my command line were painfully inconsistent with each other and with agreed-upon proper translations in my language.
entropy_ 12y ago
You are definitely not alone in that. My native language is Arabic, but if I switch my phone or computer to Arabic I wouldn't be able to use it. I dread testing translations of apps I'm working on because it forces me to switch to Arabic. It doesn't help that there's a lot of jargon that just doesn't translate that well. For example, the translation of "Tap" to Arabic is the equivalent of either "Peck" or "Perforate". It's just that that's what's generally agreed on as the proper translation and everybody uses it, however, if I didn't know that it would take me a while to figure it out for myself.