Great stuff Joshua – I hope you'll consider contributing your work to the core when you get to a suitable point – we already have a plugin for Interlingua, but it would be fitting to also have one for the original conlang.
Best wishes Jeremy On Saturday, March 26, 2022 at 7:37:17 AM UTC joshua...@gmail.com wrote: > Thank you for your replies and feedback. It's a good question. > > I'm not sure if other languages translate it, but there are several things > worth considering: > > *Brand name localisation isn't unheard of.* > > I gave the example of Wikipedia in the post. I've also heard that > Salvation Army shops are actually branded as Salvos in Australia because > that's what the locals call it. > > In both cases, the original brand name is still accessible (and not > un-recognisably different either). > *Even if no other language translated TiddlyWiki, the fact that there is a > word for Wiki already makes TiddlyWiki feel a lot more stilted.* > > TiddlyWiki is a brand, yes, but this is an opportunity to make the brand > more living and dynamic. > > *It may look strange to non-Esperantists but the great thing is that > non-Esperantists will never have to see it. The only people who will see it > are the people who recognise it.* > > (All the urls, macros and code will still be the same) > > *There is a kind of symmetry that is lost if you have a sentence taking > about "TiddlyWiki" and then "Vikio".* > > > All that being said, if the Esperantujo ends up preferring against it, we > can remove that localisation. I don't feel expectationally passionate about > it but I do think it's a nice flair. > > > On Friday, March 25, 2022 at 10:19:03 PM UTC+2 PMario wrote: > >> On Friday, March 25, 2022 at 5:33:38 PM UTC+1 Mark S. wrote: >> >> Do other languages attempt to translate "TiddlyWiki" ? I would have >>> thought that that was a special term that would stay itself in most >>> languages. >>> >> >> I'm with Mark here. TiddlyWiki is a "brand" name and shouldn't be >> translated. >> -m >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/83f47424-ec6a-4949-bcf1-ceb3d6eee356n%40googlegroups.com.
