Am Sonntag, 23. Juni 2002 19:26 schrieb Gabriel Rodr=EDguez Alberich:
> El Dom 23 Jun 2002 18:35, Charles de Miramon escribi=F3:
> > I'm the French translator  of kc kde#39.
>
> Hi, I'm the Spanish one. I just subscribed to the list.
>
> > Could the team responsible for the
> > English version be careful not to insert too long extracts of e-mails=
=2E It
> > is a painless job for you to cut and paste but a hard one for me to
> > translate it afterwards, especially when the e-mail is written in bog=
ey
> > English.
>
> That's true. I sometimes have to sweat blood to catch some pieces of
> obscure hacker slang, but I'm usually saved by the holy context.
>
> > For example, I would  like to point  # 5 of kde #39 (humm... humm
> > Juergen), the extract of Scott Wheeler's mail is much too long for th=
e
> > information contained in it and there are sentences that make no sens=
e
> > (at least to me)
> >
> > : 'I'm not trying to comandere this thing'
>
> I think I've got this one. "Comandere" looks like "command" or italian
> "comandare", both meaning "lead", which pretty fits into its context.
>
> > ... 'I may start looking into
> > writing something to write kvtml'.
>
> I think he means that he wanna code something which can write (and not =
only
> read) kvtml formatted files.
>
> > Please edit the e-mails to keep only the most informative part (as a =
rule
> > of thumb I would say no more than 10-20 lines) and summarize the rest=
,
> > reread the extracts to make sure they are understandable out of conte=
xt
> > and  you will make your faithful translator happy.
>
> That would make me happy too :-)

I will address to that :) Honestly, I did not understand everything eithe=
r=20
because he went into the technical part of his ideas, thus I did not know=
=20
which information is crucial for coders and what is.. not so important, s=
o I=20
posted his lenghty email in the whole. But you're right, I did not think=20
about the translators in this very moment :(
You re probably happy to hear that the next 3 articles I'm on are short n=
=20
sweet.
thank you for your hard work,

Juergen.
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