[Localization] Urgently needed translation for 'Give one, Get one' campaign

[Pierre Métras]

Hi Seth,

Here is the French version, at least a bilingual one for French-France and 
French-Canada. Just like for the Spanish version, there are a few ambiguities 
in the terms depending on the context you want to use them. Some terms could 
be translated as nouns or verbs, and sometime with small differencies in the 
meaning. I've tried to find a term which could be used by both sides of 
Atlantic ocean. For instance, "Shopping" is translated as "Magasiner" in 
Québec, or "Shopping" in France. Or "Email" is "Courriel" in Québec 
and "e-mail" (or "mél" as recommended, beark!) in France.

-- Pierre Métras

On Thursday 06 November 2008 16:26, Seth Woodworth wrote:
> Actually, I rethought this.  I don't *need* this to be in Pootle.  If I
> could get translators to just edit this document and send it back to me?
> That would more than satisfy.
>
> Attached above is the .rtf file that I need translated.  If people could
> just replace the english word with the translated word right in the
> document I can send these back to Taxi.
>
> I also forgot to mention what languages we think are a priority for this
> (in no particular order):
>
>  Spanish
>  Portuguese
>  Arabic, Dari, or Pashto
>  French
>  Mongolian
>
> Beyond that, any language that uses a non roman character set would be
> really special.
>
>
> Thanks for your help guys.  Sorry about the fire drill, but this is really
> going to help the marketing for this year's Give One Get One.  G1g1 is
> really important is funding the laptop distribution in Several countries.
> Please help make this year's program even more successful so we can give
> out even more machines.
>
> On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Seth Woodworth <seth at laptop.org> wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > I have a list of words here from one of the groups that is helping OLPC
> > market the 2008 Give One Get One campaign.  One of the projects they're
> > working on involves a little interactive webpage with this equation game.
> > The result is a little widget you can put on your website, facebook,
> > myspace, etc, that is translated into one of the languages that OLPC has
> > been translated to.
> >
> >
> > What I have is a list of 136 words that I need translated into as MANY
> > languages as possible, as soon as possible.  Hopefully someone on the
> > Localization list (Sayamindu?) can help me make a .po file out of this
> > attachment and let me put it into pootle to be translated.
> >
> >
> > The problem is that this is a very very short deadline.  To get this
> > ready for the big g1g1 announcement I need this done very quickly.
> >
> >
> > Can I get people to work with me on this?
> >
> > --Seth
> >
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Michelle Teramatsu <michelle.teramatsu at taxi-nyc.com>
> > Date: Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 12:35 PM
> > Subject: Equation Site-- Word translations
> > To: Seth Woodworth <seth at laptop.org>
> >
> >
> >  Hey Seth,
> >
> > Remember we talked about translations for the website?
> >
> > These are the words we need translations on asap. The idea is to have the
> > words in the languages that the laptop has been deployed or will be
> > deployed in.
> >
> > Not sure how many languages that is.. But we'll need your help/judgement
> > on the best languages and the number of languages. A wide variety would
> > be best.
> >
> > Let me know what you think it means timing wise.
> >
> > Best,
> > Michelle
> >
> >
> >
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