From kde-i18n-doc  Fri Aug 27 22:24:09 2004
From: Erik =?utf-8?q?Kj=C3=A6r_Pedersen?= <erik () binghamton ! edu>
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 22:24:09 +0000
To: kde-i18n-doc
Subject: Re: Improving KDE with translators
Message-Id: <200408271824.10148.erik () binghamton ! edu>
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Fredag 27 august 2004 18:04 skrev Rinse de Vries:
> Threat the problem by solving it, not by rating it :)

Indeed. The experienced users have typically started using an English word in 
say Danish, and are taken aback if we think of a translation.That is a very 
delicate balance, we have something called Dansk sprognævn, an offical 
entity, and once they accept an English word I normally start using it too. 

You can't judge a translation by the number of people on the team, andou 
certainly can't judge a translation by finding that somebody has 
translated ??? to ???. I am not sure what that example was supposed to mean

If you want to improve kde through translators you should make it easier for 
the translators to give the developers feedback. I have just translated a 
document where the author obviously does not understand the difference 
between it's (short for it is) and its (genitive). I am not going to make a 
bug report on that, because it is not really a bug, and most people will 
understand it anyway, and I do translate what the developer think is written, 
so the problem disappears in translation. But it looks rather silly. There 
are many many instances where it would be useful to ask: what precisely is 
meant by that string. I think it very often would lead to a 
change/improvement of the strings, and I don't think it is a good idea to 
make bug reports for these kind of things.

Erik