<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Hi Marvin,</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">I went through the 106 strings in the terminology section and all except two of them which I will include in my questions are easy. The terminology section is just regular word, I am not seeing computer programming language word there at all, as you can see it take me just a little while to translate them all.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Let's take some strrings I am having problem with, just some of them:</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Smalltalk code </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">smoothing</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">A broom to align Morphs with </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">A UML composite state shape</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Composite State</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">UML Package</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">AND Gate</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Another pointing hand</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">XOR Gate</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Scrolled State</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Squeak</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">STClass</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">FSM ButtonBar</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">FSM Flap</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Arrow Editor</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Toggle dots</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Clear clicks</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">A handy Morph-generating button</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">attachmentOwnerChanged</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">sourceConnected</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">RandomConnector</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">A basic Connector that bends smoothly</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">flap</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Kedema Turtle</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Some the strings like the above, I translate them but my translation does not make sense to me in a computer world. For example: what is a Turtle? is it the animal Turtle? What is a Morph? a XOR gate, Random connector? etc.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Marvin I will call you later today, I will not be home this morning again.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Jude<BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: Marvin Demuth <marvindemuth@sbcglobal.net><BR>To: localization@lists.laptop.org<BR>Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 4:28:32 PM<BR>Subject: [Localization] Kreyòl Localization<BR><BR>At 12:33 PM 6/19/2008, Edward Cherlin wrote:<BR><BR>>This is the reason for the Terminology section <BR>>of Pootle, for example. We encourage localizers <BR>>to do the Terminology section first, and then to <BR>>use that terminology consistently everywhere else.<BR><BR>Jude, I suggest that you look again at the 106 <BR>strings in the terminology section that remain to <BR>be translated, do what you can with them, and <BR>then let's let the list participants help with the balance.<BR><BR>As others has said today, every translator faces <BR>this same problem, especially in those languages <BR>that do not have technical publications. Ed's
<BR>example of the lack of a word for computer in the <BR>Kinyarwanda language is a case in point. We may <BR>have to coin some Kreyòl words.<BR><BR>"A journey begins with a single step." -- I can <BR>visualize that Samy can send the remaining words <BR>to the 43 professional programmers on his <BR>list. Those of us who do not know Kreyòl might <BR>learn some words. This might also help with other languages.<BR><BR>Marvin Demuth<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Localization mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:Localization@lists.laptop.org" ymailto="mailto:Localization@lists.laptop.org">Localization@lists.laptop.org</A><BR><A href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/localization" target=_blank>http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/localization</A><BR></DIV></div><br>
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