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A translator's best friend
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Bert


Joined: 30 Jun 2006
Posts: 698
PostPosted: Sun 12 May 2013, 15:16    Post subject:  A translator's best friend
Subject description: a word of praise for open-tran.eu		  
Perhaps all you translator-colleagues know about this one..If not, I cannot but share this beautiful project:

Open-tran

It really is a helpful tool, showing what other translators have come up with as translation of same word(s) and how common the translation is in the open source community.

From their website:

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Why Open-Tran.eu?

Proprietary software vendors may (if they can afford it) use CAT or TM software in order to ensure the consistency of their applications' terminology. Unfortunately, there are many different software vendors who are not willing to share their knowledge (which includes translation memory databases) with the others.

And this is where the open source software could prove to be better than the proprietary. It could, but is not. Although everybody has full access to the translations of many open source programs, this opportunity is hardly ever used. The knowledge of hundreds (if not thousands) of people translating applications into their native languages is not centralized and thus hardly available to the others. This is the reason why the translations of even the most popular programs are not consistent with each other, which discourages people from using them.

I'd like the Open-Tran.eu service to fill this gap and to provide the translators with a useful tool, which may improve the quality of their translations and increase the consistency of terminology in the open source software.


Give it a try, many many languages included!
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L18L

Joined: 19 Jun 2010
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Location: Burghaslach, Germany
PostPosted: Mon 13 May 2013, 04:44    Post subject:  
Thank you, I have tried it Very Happy

One word I have always been too lazy to look up: legacy
Now I have found it is mostly superfluous in use like in

Legacy grub config.....

grub is a good old name
grub2 and grub4dos are others
Legacy grub is ....superfluous
I have simply cut it off in my translations IIRC.

The opposite of lecacy is something like new
The world is full of Newtowns, Neustadts, Neufvilles, novgorods.....

My regards and
Thank you again Bert Very Happy

Legacy spot (at the moment after being fido)
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L18L

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PostPosted: Fri 17 May 2013, 14:28    Post subject: A translator's best friend
Subject description: list of best friends		  
pdict internationalized by robwoj44 is my number 2 in list of translator's best friends Very Happy
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