Brad Fitzpatrick ([info]bradfitz) wrote in [info]news,
@ 2002-05-03 10:08:00
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Call for translators...
All native speakers of non-English languages, if you're interested in translating LiveJournal to your mother tongue, check out [info]lj_translate. (right now, only the userinfo is interesting)

To switch your language:
http://www.livejournal.com/setlang.bml

The German and Danish teams are already hard at work:
http://www.livejournal.com/translate/

The percentages on that page only reflects the percentage of text that's available for them to translate... not how much English I've put into the translation database. As I continue working, their numbers will keep going down. Mwa hah hah. ;-)

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[info]lucretio
2002-05-03 10:16 am UTC (link)
<nitpick>
On the userinfo of [info]lj_translate:
- You most preserve HTML tags, BML tags, and variable insertions exactly.
+ You must preserve HTML tags, BML tags, and variable insertions exactly.
</nitpick>

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[info]bradfitz
2002-05-03 10:18 am UTC (link)
thanks.

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[info]xenofalcon
2002-05-03 10:19 am UTC (link)
Maybe it should be made a perm account, just for contiguity?

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[info]marnanel
2002-05-03 10:21 am UTC (link)
Oo, neat.

Hm, Google did Latin. I wonder how difficult it would be...

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[info]newscane
2002-05-03 11:02 am UTC (link)
forget Latin. LJ needs Pig Latin :)

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(no subject) - [info]marnanel, 2002-05-03 11:04 am UTC (Expand)
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(no subject) - [info]anton, 2002-05-05 08:50 am UTC (Expand)
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[info]roy
2002-05-03 10:34 am UTC (link)
you should try to get [info]billiam to do a translation to ebonics

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[info]bradfitz
2002-05-03 10:36 am UTC (link)
Good idea!!!

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Re: ! - [info]roy, 2002-05-03 10:37 am UTC (Expand)
Re: ! - [info]bjennings76, 2002-05-03 12:28 pm UTC (Expand)
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Re: ! - [info]petef, 2002-05-03 01:51 pm UTC (Expand)
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[info]calliste
2002-05-03 10:43 am UTC (link)
As I continue working, their numbers will keep going down.

Sucker.

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[info]freso
2002-05-03 10:49 am UTC (link)
Indeed... guess we must pendruple our workload then!! Work work work work work!!!!!

:P

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(no subject) - [info]calliste, 2002-05-03 10:54 am UTC (Expand)
Swedish Chef!!
[info]bride
2002-05-03 11:17 am UTC (link)
Code: [faq] 119.2answer =) =)

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Iff yuoo pusted it yuoorselff, yes. Um gesh dee bork, bork! Iff yuoo're-a zee cummooneety's meeenteiner, und sumeune-a ilse-a pusted zee intry, yuoo cun delete-a zee intry boot yuoo cun't ideet it in oozeer veys. Um gesh dee bork, bork!

USING THE VEB INTERFECE:

Edeet zee intry by useeng zee tuulber oon zee "Pust Cumments" oor "Reed Cumments" pege-a, es ixpleeened et http://vvv.leefejuoornel.cum/sooppurt/feqbroose-a.bml?feqeed=2 .

Tu reech zee Cumments pege-a vhee zee "Beckdete-a Intry" bux ( http://vvv.leefejuoornel.cum/sooppurt/feqbroose-a.bml?feqeed=91 ) is checked, use-a zee soobject leesting in zee Celender feeoo, es yuoo vuoold vhee messege-a buerds ere-a deesebled. Bork bork bork!

Iff un intry dues nut eppeer in zee soobject leesting, its preefecy lefel is prubebly prefenteeng yuoo frum seeeeng it. Um de hur de hur de hur. Meke-a soore-a yuoo ere-a lugged in, ere-a a member ooff zee cummooneety, itc. Iff zee intry is preefete-a, yuoo'll need tu knoo its item ID.

Iff yuoo ere-a zee meeenteiner ooff zee cummooneety boot ere-a getteeng irrurs vhee tryeeng tu delete-a zee intry, meke-a soore-a yuoo ere-a lugged in es yuoorselff (zee meeenteiner), nut es zee cummooneety. Bork bork bork!

USING THE VINDOVS CLIENT:

See-a http://vvv.leefejuoornel.cum/sooppurt/feqbroose-a.bml?feqeed=2 fur ideeting instroocshuns. Um gesh dee bork, bork!
See-a http://vvv.leefejuoornel.cum/sooppurt/feqbroose-a.bml?feqeed=3 fur deleshun instroocshuns. Um gesh dee bork, bork!
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[info]chand
2002-05-03 01:02 pm UTC (link)
rrr, cool :D But I bet there aren't any Finns interested/able to do this.

um gesh dee bork bork

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[info]bradfitz
2002-05-03 01:22 pm UTC (link)
Are you interested?

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(no subject) - [info]b3rnd, 2002-05-03 02:52 pm UTC (Expand)
(no subject) - [info]bradfitz, 2002-05-03 02:53 pm UTC (Expand)
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[info]rahaeli
2002-05-03 06:33 pm UTC (link)
I'll volunteer to do the translation into h4ck3r! (What, you mean we're not going to be like Google and offer Hacker, Elmer Fudd, and Swedish Chef?)

Anyone here speak Klingon?

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[info]sxgp
2002-05-03 06:40 pm UTC (link)
yeah it would be fun to have a h4ck3r or 1337 LJ translation. ROT-13 too. ^_^

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(no subject) - [info]rahaeli, 2002-05-03 06:46 pm UTC (Expand)
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[info]timwi
2002-05-03 08:32 pm UTC (link)
The only language I could help out with is German, and you've already found translators for that. I would nevertheless volunteer to look over it when it's done; in fact, I would ask to be allowed to. No offense to the translators, but usually it's better if someone proofreads it all.

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[info]bradfitz
2002-05-03 09:09 pm UTC (link)
Didn't get far following links, eh? :-)

[info]lj_translate links to [info]lj_deutsch, where everybody is discussing the German translation.

In fact, I'm requiring all translation teams to make a language community so they CAN agree on the terminology.

As for joining them, you totally should... there are three of them already, but they'd love all the help they can get.

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[info]sparkofcreation
2002-05-04 09:57 am UTC (link)
All native speakers of non-English languages, if you're interested in translating LiveJournal to your mother tongue...

Um, not to be rude or anything, but you don't need "native speakers." You need translators. If they're also native speakers, so much the better--but a non-native, trained translator will do a much better job than a native speaker with no translation training/experience.

This is what the government is learning from its snafus lately--its only requirement for interpreters/translators was "Native speakers of Pashto" or whatever. Not pretty.

Ideally, I'd say each translation team should include at least one person who is a translator, to translate; AND at least one person who is a (college-educated) native speaker with computer knowledge to proofread. If both were native speakers AND translators, that would be better--but both qualities, not just "native speakers," are necessary.

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[info]annanke
2002-05-09 12:48 pm UTC (link)
Um, not to be rude or anything, but you don't need "native speakers." You need translators. If they're also native speakers, so much the better--but a non-native, trained translator will do a much better job than a native speaker with no translation training/experience.

hell, yes! i'm an applied linguistics student (majoring in translation) and we learn a lot of things that laymen have no idea about. people think that it's so easy to translate. it's not. i totally agree that being a native speaker doesn't necessary make you competent in translating into your mother tongue.

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[info]luizzz
2002-05-04 05:13 pm UTC (link)
Uowww! Its great!!! :D

We are waiting the Lj's portuquese version, as we are more 800 users in Brazil, and our commutity grow daily! More of 400 new Lj users in 2001!

Congratulations, and thanks! :)

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[info]apestaartje
2002-05-04 05:48 pm UTC (link)
Oooh, cool, Livejournal in different languages. Are you going to do Dutch or Flemish?

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[info]anton
2002-05-05 03:39 am UTC (link)
There are some problems with the LiveJournal's logo and with page width when it is translated to Russian. Maybe it is a good idea to add more width parameters to Language Editor, not only dystopia.nav.width?

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Luizzz is right on the money!
[info]anabela
2002-05-05 05:18 am UTC (link)
yes yes! i already talked to [info]insomnia and [info]avva about this. me me me! i´ll start the Portuguese version right now by searching for people who are both fluent in English and Portuguese in our Brazil community!


thank you thank you thank you! finally =)

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[info]ziemkowski
2002-05-07 03:19 pm UTC (link)
Why not additionally use the HTTP Accept-Language request header? This would allow visitors to the site, as well as potential new users, media, etc... to see the site in their language regardless of if they are a member or not (and further customized their journal to specify the language). It also means the user doesn't have to first know English to change the language...

-AZ-

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[info]bradfitz
2002-05-07 03:22 pm UTC (link)
It was supposed to be doing it, and it did a couple weeks ago, but then I broke it on accident. I just discovered that about 10 minutes ago ... it'll be fixed soon.

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[info]tenkiya
2002-05-08 08:38 pm UTC (link)
ありがとう！I was so happy to log in this morning and see LJ in Japanese finally!

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[info]jeroen
2002-05-09 04:37 am UTC (link)
I'm dutch but don't want the dutch version of lj. So I changed it on http://www.livejournal.com/setlang.bml, but every time I close my browser and look at livejournal later again, it's back to the dutch version again and I have to change my lang. pref. again. Is there a way to avoid having to do this all every time?

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[info]wizzardy
2002-05-09 04:51 am UTC (link)
I've got the same problem... lj switches to german whenever I close my browser... but I don't want the german language...

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(no subject) - [info]plusjke, 2002-05-09 11:04 pm UTC (Expand)
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(no subject) - [info]plusjke, 2002-05-10 10:20 am UTC (Expand)

[info]redwaterlily
2002-05-09 05:42 am UTC (link)
there are a lot of people grumpy about having to chang ethier whole browser settings now so that LJ will still show up in english.

Setting it to another language should be optional an dnot somewhat forced on people just becuase they have a german computer with german browser settings.

Especially those that have had an LJ for a while and are USED to the english terms..

will this be changed? I heard TONS of complaints.

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yes!
[info]redgilda
2002-05-09 07:02 am UTC (link)
frankly, it's annoying that every time I open LJ it shows up in Polish. though, sure it's a great idea and I DO wanna help out in translating it to Polish, but personally I STILL prefer ENGLISH.. and well, I don't know how to set my browser for LJ to still show up in English actually... how do I do it? I'm tired of 'setting the language' on and on.... :-P

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Re: yes! - [info]redwaterlily, 2002-05-09 07:13 am UTC (Expand)
hmm.... - [info]redgilda, 2002-05-09 07:23 am UTC (Expand)
Re: hmm.... - [info]redwaterlily, 2002-05-09 07:26 am UTC (Expand)
LJ in Arabic
[info]now4ever
2002-05-09 07:41 am UTC (link)
Exactly how am I supposed to do all of the translating and everything?

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Translation
[info]storyteller82
2002-05-09 08:01 am UTC (link)
The translation is a nice idea. There are still people that aren't too familiar with the English language. I started lj today and suddenly the navigation on the left side has changed. And I am very sorry to say, but the translation of it is .... clumsy.
How do I get the English back? The Dutch version is teethgrinding, really.

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[info]storyteller82
2002-05-09 08:03 am UTC (link)
Nevermind. I already got :P A view threads up :p

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[info]plusjke
2002-05-09 11:11 pm UTC (link)
i posted a complain into a reaaaaaaly wrong community journal, but okay.. i did get some links that helped me out and did get me here.
I HATE the fact my left side of the screen is suddenly in Dutch.
Not to speak of the quality of the dutch.
I know my english sucks too, and this will probably will be full of mistakes, but hey, that's my problem.
I just like it to be in english again. *boehoehoehoe***
I have changed my settings, but i can do it every time i log in again.
And no, i don't want to change my whole settings on my browser.
Why can't we just chose??
When i look at some developer pages.. than i could use a dutch version sometimes.
But i like my left side of the screen to be in english.
Thnx if that's somehow possible in the future.
Lot's of friends of mine are complaining too. They can't find their way anymore.

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[info]elspethdawitch
2002-05-11 06:53 pm UTC (link)
Greek, it ought to be in Greek too. And Italian. I don't know if there's a demand for it though. I'm Greek but I don't speak Greek so...yeah.

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[info]donnaidh_sidhe
2002-05-27 02:37 pm UTC (link)
Well, I speak Greek...have spoken it all my life, although I don't know too much about technical lingo (NETGLOS is good for that, though). If ever there's a team for a Greek translation of LJ, I'd be willing to help out.

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[info]deciphered
2002-08-08 02:22 pm UTC (link)
so when exactly will you be uploading Turkish in the server..?
i want to get started asap, and i already got a reply from [info]avva
two months ago saying he would do it soon then...

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