Re: Update on Localisation Style Guides and Glossaries

[Kenneth Christiansen <kenneth gnu org>]

Well, since I started the Danish glossary and in a long time has worked on
improving it together with Keld and our localisation team, you can count
me in aswell :)

Cheers, Kenneth 

On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Aoife Dunne - Sunsoft ELC wrote:

> Hello All
> 
> Thanks to everyone for their response, however, since we have only got one 
> volunteer (Rebecca J. Walter) to cleanup the English glossary, Sun has 
> volunteer to work with Rebecca to do this work.  Before we proceed, I need 
> to be sure that the developers and translators will use this glossary as 
> reference once it is completed?.  In order to ensure quality, it is 
> important that we are consistent in our terminology.
> 
> Can I get at least one volunteer from each language team to translate the 
> English glossary into their languages once the English has been cleaned?.
> 
> We currently have the following volunteers:
> 
> Language		Name			E-mail
> English			Rebecca J. Walter	rjp mail tele dk
> Danish			Keld			keld dkuug dk 
> Brazilian Portuguese	E. A. Tacão		tacao conectiva com br
> 
> Please advise
> Aoife
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > X-Unix-From: Aoife Dunne ireland sun com  Wed Dec  6 17:12:25 2000
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> > Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 17:01:40 +0000 (GMT)
> > From: Aoife Dunne - Sunsoft ELC <Aoife Dunne ireland sun com>
> > Subject: Re: Update on Localisation Style Guides and Glossaries
> > To: michael twomey ireland sun com, rjp mail tele dk
> > Cc: gnome-i18n gnome org, gnome-doc-list gnome org, 
> Aoife Dunne ireland sun com
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> > Hi Rebecca and All
> > 
> > The work involved in cleaning up the English is follows
> > 
> > * Tidy it up and remove any unnecessary terms, particularly duplicate
> > lower case terms.  We currently have approx. 5,000 terms and I think it 
> > is possible to reduce the number of terms to 3,000 terms by removing 
> > unwanted terms, duplicated terms etc.
> > 
> > * Add in speech information where necessary (adj, n, v etc.)
> > 
> > * Insert a definition for each term.
> > 
> > Michael Twomey will attach the spreadsheet via an e-mail, can you or 
> > someone take the files and place them under the Gnome CVS tree and to 
> > place them in an appropriate place on the Gnome web site?.  Then they 
> > will be available for people to start working to clean them.
> > 
> > Thanks for your help.
> > Aoife
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 14:39:08 +0100
> > > From: "Rebecca J. Walter" <rjp mail tele dk>
> > > X-Accept-Language: en, da
> > > MIME-Version: 1.0
> > > To: Michael Twomey <michael twomey ireland sun com>
> > > Cc: "gnome-i18n gnome org" <gnome-i18n gnome org>, Gnome Doc List 
> > <gnome-doc-list gnome org>, Aoife Dunne <Aoife Dunne ireland sun com>
> > > Subject: Re: Update on Localisation Style Guides and Glossaries
> > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> > > 
> > > I can help with cleaning up the English if you mean things like
> > > proofreading and such.
> > > bex
> > > 
> > > ps--i have a degree in english from a us university.  ignore my .dk, 
> > i
> > > moved.
> > 
> > Aoife Dunne
> > Program Manager
> > European Localisation Centre
> > Sun Microsystems Ireland Ltd
> > Hamilton House
> > East Point Business Park
> > Dublin 3
> > Ireland
> > Tel.:  	+353-1-8199-266
> > Fax:.	+353-1-8199-261
> > Email:	aoife dunne Ireland Sun COM
> > 
> > 
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> Aoife Dunne
> Program Manager
> European Localisation Centre
> Sun Microsystems Ireland Ltd
> Hamilton House
> East Point Business Park
> Dublin 3
> Ireland
> Tel.:  	+353-1-8199-266
> Fax:.	+353-1-8199-261
> Email:	aoife dunne Ireland Sun COM
> 
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