Re: German Debian
I'm a bit late but...
Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> wrote:
> Unfortunately, all of Debian. Translating technical texts from English
> to German is controversial at its best, and the Debian translators
> have taken my least favorite approach of eliminating all English,
> leading to barbarities like "SMTP-Sendezentrale" or
> "Sicherheitsgutachten". Debian's German translations feel to me (a
> native speaker of German) as babelfished from English.
ACK
> I used to take a look at Debian's translations of my own package's
> Debconf templates, but nowadays I just treat them as just another
> language that I don't speak. This approach saves me a lot of grief.
Same here.
>>Sounds like Debian has QA issues wrt the website translations. I
>>assume that you reported that to the German website l10n folks,
>>debian-i18n and debian-www?
>
> They are resistant to advice and think their way is the correct way.
> They work with a word list, so it must be correct.
I found the same. They seem to want to invent a new german IT-lingo,
which simply isn't accepted by the majority who just talk german grammar
with english vocabulary.
I don't care anymore for german translations. May the ones who cannot
read the english original *and* have trouble with the german text
discuss with them.
Regards, Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Debian Developer (TeXLive)
VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg
B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg
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