Salam
Some of you may know that I live in Manchester, UK. Nearby there is the University of Salford[1], they operate a unique course called "Arabic/English Translation and Interpreting" [2]. Fits well with what we do, right? It is the only course of its type in the United Kingdom. I recently met a lecturer who lectures this course at that university. He is named Anice[3]. I've talked to him about what we do and the difficulties we face in translation and i18n, showed him the website and I think he is willing to give us a helping hand. However I wouldn't like to request that he signs with the website/mailing lists for now. Instead, I will meet him face to face with our issues. I have arranged to meet weekly with him with weekly issues, thanks to him (he is quite a good guy). First meeting is Friday 3:00. Yes, this Friday 13th October. So what I would like I/us/you to do is to compile a list of issues on translation and Arabic linguistics, like say, plural forms, or the recent Amr/Masdar debate, I will present these issues to him and let you know what he thinks (and hopefully borrow a couple of books on translation from him, hehe). This is our chance to get an expert working with us, so use it to its full potential. I will post minutes of the meetings with him. Please use this wiki page [4] to post the issues, let me know if you don't have a wiki account. For this week, what I would like to do is go through essential.po of the Technical Dictionary quickly with him. Can you please mark any strings that you think need revision as fuzzy, and freeze it by Friday morning, I'll work it out with him. If you guys have another working model please let me know, but please understand that I wouldn't like to overload him with stuff. Djihed [1] http://www.salford.ac.uk [2] http://www.salford.ac.uk/course-finder/course/115 [3] I have to request permission before posting his full name, so hang on. [4] http://wiki.arabeyes.org/i18n_issues _______________________________________________ Doc mailing list [email protected] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/doc
