Active german translators?

Manichean · 04-18-2011, 06:25 AM

I just had a look at the german translations of Calibre after taking a somewhat longer break and noticed some recent activity. I have a comment regarding the translations to pass on, I got told the same thing when I started contributing to the translation:
Try to adhere to the style and word choice already made in existing translations. This is especially relevant for things like often-occuring words (tags, cover, ...) or often-occuring phrases (connect to X in the device plugins, ...). That way, the translation will appear to be homogenous and easy to read. If in doubt, use the search function to search for the english phrase or word to find strings that have already been translated.

tEmrich · 04-19-2011, 04:55 PM

Oh, I'm afraid that was my fault. I'm new to open source developement in general and wanted to make a small step into this great world

I tried carefully to search for the given text snippets inside calibre, to get the context right. For often-occuring words like "cover" and "news" I looked up existing translations ("Umschlagbild" and "Nachrichten").

Can you hint to any specific section or word? I would really like to poivide "right" translations, so any help or examples would be very nice.

Manichean · 04-19-2011, 05:44 PM

I was mainly thinking about "Umschlag" and "Etiketten". As long as you look stuff up, everything is good- I started that way, as well

tEmrich · 04-19-2011, 05:58 PM

Well, thank you very much.

ThR · 04-21-2011, 02:55 AM

Sehr nett, wenn sich 2 Deutsche auf englisch über eine deutsche Übersetzung unterhalten. ;-)

(It's nice to see 2 Germans making an english conversation about german translations.) ;-)

Manichean · 04-21-2011, 03:25 AM

I know. But this forum is more active than the german part, and anyone translating should be reasonably fluid in english anyway, so it shouldn't matter too much.

user_none · 04-21-2011, 07:00 AM

Don't forget that calibre isn't in it's own world. KDE for instance has a very large translation base. You can always double check against their translations when in doubt. They may have something similar you can check against.

Manichean · 04-21-2011, 07:34 AM

I was more concerned about the translations keeping in style with what is already translated.

04-18-2011, 06:25 AM	#1
Manichean Wizard Posts: 3,130 Karma: 91256 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Germany Device: Cybook Gen3	Active german translators? I just had a look at the german translations of Calibre after taking a somewhat longer break and noticed some recent activity. I have a comment regarding the translations to pass on, I got told the same thing when I started contributing to the translation: Try to adhere to the style and word choice already made in existing translations. This is especially relevant for things like often-occuring words (tags, cover, ...) or often-occuring phrases (connect to X in the device plugins, ...). That way, the translation will appear to be homogenous and easy to read. If in doubt, use the search function to search for the english phrase or word to find strings that have already been translated. Last edited by Manichean; 04-18-2011 at 06:27 AM.

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04-19-2011, 04:55 PM	#2
tEmrich Junior Member Posts: 9 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Germany Device: Kindle 3	Oh, I'm afraid that was my fault. I'm new to open source developement in general and wanted to make a small step into this great world I tried carefully to search for the given text snippets inside calibre, to get the context right. For often-occuring words like "cover" and "news" I looked up existing translations ("Umschlagbild" and "Nachrichten"). Can you hint to any specific section or word? I would really like to poivide "right" translations, so any help or examples would be very nice.

04-19-2011, 05:44 PM	#3
Manichean Wizard Posts: 3,130 Karma: 91256 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Germany Device: Cybook Gen3	I was mainly thinking about "Umschlag" and "Etiketten". As long as you look stuff up, everything is good- I started that way, as well

04-19-2011, 05:58 PM	#4
tEmrich Junior Member Posts: 9 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Germany Device: Kindle 3	Well, thank you very much.

04-21-2011, 02:55 AM	#5
ThR Tatütatuter Posts: 390 Karma: 3148 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Germany, Baden, Karlsruhe Device: Aura H2O, Glo HD, Paperwhite, PRS-950	Sehr nett, wenn sich 2 Deutsche auf englisch über eine deutsche Übersetzung unterhalten. ;-) (It's nice to see 2 Germans making an english conversation about german translations.) ;-)

04-21-2011, 03:25 AM	#6
Manichean Wizard Posts: 3,130 Karma: 91256 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Germany Device: Cybook Gen3	I know. But this forum is more active than the german part, and anyone translating should be reasonably fluid in english anyway, so it shouldn't matter too much.

04-21-2011, 07:00 AM	#7
user_none Sigil & calibre developer Posts: 2,488 Karma: 1063785 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Florida, USA Device: Nook STR	Don't forget that calibre isn't in it's own world. KDE for instance has a very large translation base. You can always double check against their translations when in doubt. They may have something similar you can check against.

04-21-2011, 07:34 AM	#8
Manichean Wizard Posts: 3,130 Karma: 91256 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Germany Device: Cybook Gen3	I was more concerned about the translations keeping in style with what is already translated.

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