On 13 July 2010 16:46, Jimmy O'Regan <jore...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13 July 2010 16:18, Jeffrey Ratcliffe <jeffrey.ratcli...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Launchpad? I'll admit that I haven't looked at it in quite a while,
>>> but I remember it being poor quality software producing poor quality
>>> translations; I've heard that the quality of the translations has
>>> improved quite drastically, but I'd still prefer software designed by
>>> translators for translators, like Pootle.
>>
>> That's not how Launchpad translations works. You upload the .pot, and
>> anybody (person not computer) (or only those you allow) can translate
>> the strings. The only automation is that the translator is offered
>> similar strings from other packages as suggestions.
>
> I have no idea what you think I meant, but you seem to have
> misunderstood me. I mean that, Pootle's developers are translators
> themselves, and their target users are also translators. By contrast,
> Launchpad was developed by people who seem to know little or nothing
> about translation at all, for a target audience of people who are not
> translators, but who happen to speak another language and want to make
> a contribution.
>
> I was not suggesting that Launchpad uses MT (MT happens to be my 'day
> job'). I was suggesting that the collective efforts at Launchpad are,
> or at least were, similarly unreliable.

Launchpad trolling aside, I am being somewhat serious here. The usual
output that the user will encounter in normal operation is quite
typical, but there are quite a lot of strings that *may* be output to
the user that are quite complicated and will require the attention of
serious translators: the sort who are involved in terminology
normalisation.


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<Leftmost> jimregan, that's because deep inside you, you are evil.
<Leftmost> Also not-so-deep inside you.

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