Re: about translating certain words

2023-11-19 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
Ralf Mardorf writes: > On Sat, 2023-11-18 at 13:45 +0100, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: >> When I translate to German, I do prefer German words, when >> there’s no good argument against it. > that's good practise! OTOH a good arguments against a translation are > "in Bangla, most people say",

Re: about translating certain words

2023-11-19 Thread zoorat
hi, thanks for the mail. On 11/19/23 21:10, ag-sig99 wrote: > Hi, > > First of all, I am happy to see someone having an idea to translate > Archwiki into Bangla. > > I would suggest it to be translated into casual Bangla since chaste > Bangla is something that most won't even understand and some

Re: about translating certain words

2023-11-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2023-11-18 at 13:45 +0100, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > When I translate to German, I do prefer German words, when > there’s no good argument against it. Hi, that's good practise! OTOH a good arguments against a translation are "in Bangla, most people say", "not in real life". > T

Re: about translating certain words

2023-11-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2023-11-18 at 13:34 +, zoorat wrote: > sorry, but I failed to find Debian's or genome's Bangla documentation or > things like that. Hi, in this case, it might make sense to see if there are already common translations for comparable "things" on other operating systems, Android, Window

Re: about translating certain words

2023-11-18 Thread Lone_Wolf
On 18-11-2023 18:36, zoorat wrote: In general, try to convey the information in a way useful to Bengali readers. Do *not necessarily* translate literally, like machine translations would. thanks a lot. i will try my best. Hi, https://translatewiki.net/ appears to have a bangla team, see h

Re: about translating certain words

2023-11-18 Thread zoorat
> In general, try to convey the information in a way useful to Bengali > readers. Do *not necessarily* translate literally, like machine > translations would. thanks a lot. i will try my best. -- yours zoorat, PGP: 0586360F8791A5492251129802DDA8074345 GITHUB: https://github.com/z00rat Ope

Re: about translating certain words

2023-11-18 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
Hello zoorat. zoorat writes: > I have the official dictionary from Bangla Academy, I will use it then. > at first, I didn't even think about them because they don't have the > best reputation... whatever > I will try to be as formal as the schoolbooks. as far as I know, those > are vetted by Bang

Re: about translating certain words

2023-11-18 Thread zoorat
hi, > in this case, it might make sense to see if there are already common > translations for comparable "things" on other operating systems, > Android, Windows, iOS, etc. I will look into those sources. as far as I remember, they are just bad machine translation. (I mean even grammar doesn't ma

Re: about translating certain words

2023-11-18 Thread zoorat
hi, thanks a lot for the answer. > Hello zoorat, I suggest to follow authorities like the Académie > Française. Wikipedia claims Bangla has a Bangla Academy. What would > they say? I have the official dictionary from Bangla Academy, I will use it then. at first, I didn't even think about the

Re: about translating certain words

2023-11-18 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
Hello zoorat, I suggest to follow authorities like the Académie Française. Wikipedia claims Bangla has a Bangla Academy. What would they say? When I translate to German, I do prefer German words, when there’s no good argument against it. The terminology of Debian’s or GNOME’s or other translati

about translating certain words

2023-11-18 Thread zoorat
hi, I was planning to translate AURweb and archwiki into Bangla. but got into a problem. sorry if I missed this info in the wiki. while reading badly translated https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman_(%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%82%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE) I got confused about how to translate the word "