Subject: Re: language coordination proposal
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Dec 16 2001 - 07:32:03 CST
Hi Damon,
Being a totally uni-lingual English speaker this is certainly an
offer I appreciate. I'm sure we'd all love to have extra help with
translations.
Thanks!
Martin
PS. In addition we're also putting together better documentation for our
help system. David Chart is organising this and I'm sure he'd appreciate
help in tranlating the documentation too.
On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Damon Allen Davison wrote:
> I'm new to the list, but have been happily using AbiWord for a few
> months now to do lots of quick and dirty word processing and some LaTeX
> formatting that I used to have to write Perl scripts to do. I'm writing
> now to sound out an idea I had.
>
> Some of the translations in the string files are not correct, but not
> uniformly so. (I don't want to attract flames or make bad blood, so I
> won't mention specific languages.) AbiWord could use someone to
> coordinate and actively recruit users to correct current string files
> and to add to them. I propose to do this after I am done with a serious
> and time-consuming bit of business at the beginning of the year.
>
> I speak/read/write German, French, Spanish, Italian, and to some degree
> most of the other Romance languages. The ones I mentioned specifically,
> I master at a near-native level. The idea, however, is to get native
> speakers to do this work in groups of three or so, so that they can
> check their own work -- if one doesn't know, the others will.
>
> Looking forward to getting some feedback on this idea.
>
> Best,
>
>
> damon
>
>
> --
> Damon Allen Davison
> mailto:davison@socal.rr.com
>
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