Hi Zethan,
First of all, great to see interest in doing Quechua but I must admit
(I'm not a LO admin by the way) that I'm slightly worried. Not being a
native speaker is not necessarily a problem but not being fully fluent
is, to my mind, potentially an issue, speaking from experience. I am
just spending untold hours of highly frustrating proofreading over on
Ubuntu where over a long time, an enthusiastic but semi-fluent
translator has totally messed up the Ubuntu localization.
Now, I'm not suggesting you would do the same but there is a danger that
if you're not fluent by your own admission, your translation may be seen
as less-than-good by users. Which can have a hugely detrimental effect
up the long-term uptake if people get it in their heads that "software
in Quechua makes you cringe". So without the input of a fully fluent
speaker, I would be a bit worried about the quality issue. Is there a
chance maybe of teaming up with someone else? I know Mozilla has a
Quechua team, perhaps there's someone there?
Having said that, if you are familiar with the new language packs
Microsoft did for Quechua (Win 8 and Office 2013), you may be able to
use that as a very effective cribsheet, which would also have the
advantage of keeping the terminology consistent, nothing more
frustrating in a minoritised language than terminoloigy at loggerheads
across products. Are you familiar with those?
leis na dùrachdan,
Michael
14/08/2013 11:02, sgrìobh yac...@hotmail.co.nz:
I would like to undertake a Southern Quechua (Cusco Quechua specificially)
translation. I am not a native or even fluent speaker, but I speak it to a
significant degree (and am getting better). It seems to me rather a large gap
that one of the most spoken Amerindian languages (with millions of speakers)
should have no translation of its own. Also, I would be happy to hand over the
lead of such an undertaking to a (committed) native, fluent, or fluenter-than-I
speaker if one came along.
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