Re: (off-topic) translations, was: Is there a way to help gtkmm for website translation?

[Mark Roberts <gtkmm manumark de>]

On Sat, 1 May 2010, Murray Cumming wrote:

> On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 21:00 +0200, Mark Roberts wrote:

> > This illustrates in a nutshell why so many gnome programs have
> > translations that read as if every sentence had been translated by a
> > different person. The reason is simply that every sentence is _really_
> > translated by a different person, and that that person doesn't know what
> > the program he is translating does, nor what context the sentence stands
> > in.

> I don't think that's generally true. The teams (or at least their
> leadership) are generally small and close-knit, I think, with their
> glossaries of technical words. Maybe your language just doesn't have a
> good team.

German. The results ought to be better for a widely spoken language like 
German.

> And, more importantly, if you think it could be better, you can join
> that language's team and improve things, and things generally get better
> because people do that. But anyway, this is off-topic here.

This is very true and I should be ashamed of myself for raising the 
subject.

Mark