In languages having polite and colloquial pronouns: how should "you" be translated? Also: If you happen to want lithuanian some day, you may inform me, I guess there arent too many capable of translating into that.
Deutsch & Slowenisch are two of them: sie/SIE - vi/Vi :)
In languages having polite and colloquial pronouns: how should "you" be translated? Also: If you happen to want lithuanian some day, you may inform me, I guess there arent too many capable of translating into that.
Deutsch & Slowenisch are two of them: sie/SIE - vi/Vi :)
Deutsch: du / Sie
how would you change to that language anyway?
I can help to translate Chinese and Chinese (Hong Kong).
Hi!
I submitted a german translation. I didn't translate "button", because I think every german who uses this app will understand what button means. I am not aware of an accurate translation for Button. "Knopf" would be the translation, but it sounds artificial. There's also the possibility to just say "Click on 'save'" (Klicke auf "Speichern") and get rid of "button" ;). I guess that's your choice ;).
how about Pirate
how about Pirate
Please provide some examples :)
block: send to Davie Jone's Locker
start: pull anchor
lose: sink
add friend: add sailor
i can translate to english!!!
Can I somehow find out whether I wasn't chosen to do the Polish translation, or nobody was chosen yet?
block: send to Davie Jone's Locker
start: pull anchor
lose: sink
add friend: add sailor
Send to davie Jone's locker is checkmate or capture!
Can I somehow find out whether I wasn't chosen to do the Polish translation, or nobody was chosen yet?
I asked the Pope, President, and the Queen and they all say no.
block: send to Davie Jone's Locker
start: pull anchor
lose: sink
add friend: add sailor
draw = draaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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block: send to Davie Jone's Locker
start: pull anchor
lose: sink
add friend: add sailor
draw = draaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
more like: both cannons bust
Some of the "phrases" are quite lengthy.
I submitted a translation to Dutch. A few remarks:
- There is a temptation to follow the English sentence structure closely. While this may result in correct Dutch, it doesn't necessarily result in natural sounding Dutch. This is why professional translators earn their keep. But I did the best I could.
- There are a number of user interface terms like "save" and "gadget". It is a bit of challenge to translate these correctly.
[I just googled for some guidelines, and found:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/groups/275/uitgangspunten_en_richtlijnen
Now I realise I should have translated "Sign In" as "Aanmelden", not as "Inloggen". ]
- Good point by hicetnunc about context and space available. English is a more compact language than Dutch for instance.
Ah, I also entered a Dutch translation and I also used "Inloggen" instead of "Aanmelden"... I guess it's both correct, but "Aanmelden" is a bit more Dutch (and thus maybe better) than "Inloggen", which is semi-English.
Also I'm not sure what to do with words like "Google Friends" (is that in caps for a reason? is it a Google service? or is it just the contacts you have in Google?) and "Chess Gadget" (again, is there a reason for the caps? is "Chess Gadget" the title of the gadget?). A bit more information would be nice so that we can adjust the translation to the context.
I used inloggen as well :P
Well in my opinion "inloggen" is better than "aanmelden". Aanmelden sounds like "sign up" to me.
I wanted to help translate but when I go translatormode I dont see where I can translate? If I am correct it should display when the mouse floats over english.. but I dont see anything floating?
Afrikaans??
Live Chess = Lewendige Skaak
Turn-Based Chess = Beurtskaak
Tactics Trainer = Taktiek Afrigter
Online Coaching = Aanlyn Afrigting
Today's Hot Topics = Vandag se Warm Onderwerpe
Video Lessons = Beeldradio Lesse
Maybe translating to Afrikaans is not such a good idea... 
In languages having polite and colloquial pronouns: how should "you" be translated? Also: If you happen to want lithuanian some day, you may inform me, I guess there arent too many capable of translating into that.