========== Date: Fri, 13 May 1994 11:28:39 WET Sender: Gaelic Language Bulletin Board From: Marion GUNN Subject: aistriu/cha/in < translations > TWICE this week we have had requests for free translations into Gaelic of software packages! I wish anyone else considering such an act would stop and consider just how many software packages there are, which are well worth translating. As someone professionally involved, I can tell you that there are hundreds, if not thousands, of really good packages --enough to dedicate GAELIC-L's entire bandwith to for a year or more! Please do not post the text of commercial/shareware/freeware packages, in their entirety, to G-L. It is hard to understand how someone feels it right for a German or an Italian translator to be paid for services of this kind, but that a speaker of a minority language should be glad to do it for nothing. Localization into minority languages is a small, but flourishing business, thank God. Please do not consider GAELIC-L a free technical/software translation service. Everson Gunn Teoranta can handle localization requests. If EGT has too much work on hand, we can refer you to other sources of help. Please do not forward long msgs in English to GAELIC-L for translation (whatever the content), as we need the space reserved for exchanges between Gaelic speakers and learners, for short translation exercises which benefit the majority, as well as really interesting debates on thorny linguistic and semantic problems. mg ========== Joseph Heck forwarded a message _450_lines_long_ to WELSH-L today, giving the English text of the Gopher interface. Like GAELIC-L, WELSH-L isn't here for such messages. We're here to discuss the question of localization, sure; it's fine to send a message asking for people interested in tackling such work, and giving a person like Paul Lindner's address. But please remember that many people on WELSH-L pay for each message received, and only a few people ever need see 450 lines of Gopher text in English, namely those people interested in working on the translation. As Marion said, Everson Gunn Teoranta is working to do software localization into Irish, and in coordinating localization efforts in other minority languages. We're in touch with localizers in Scotland, Wales, the Canadian Arctic, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. If anyone's interested in doing the Welsh translation of this Gopher text, drop me and Paul Lindner a line. Rydw i ddim yn gwybod, os mae archant yn y project hwn--yn tybogol nac yw--ach mae e'n peth da pa mae y dynion cyfieithyddwyr yng nghyffyrdiad. Hwyl, Michael Everson School of Architecture, UCD; Richview, Clonskeagh; Dublin 14; E/ire Phone: +353 1 706-2745 Fax: +353 1 283-7778 Home: +353 1 478-2597