Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Spanish translations and suggested correction [was: burbuja]

El 19/01/11 16:22, tonda kavalec escribió:
> Hola, estoy de acuerdo con vos, lo mejor sería:
>
> No se encontró ninguna actualización.
>
>
> Xuacu wrote:
> > El miércoles, 19-xineru-2011 a les 13:21 +0100, Andras Timar escribió:
> >
> > > > (12:37:51 PM) burbuja: Checking for an update failed
> > > > (12:38:08 PM) burbuja: string
> > > > (12:38:25 PM) burbuja: the correct translation would be: Checking for
> > > > an update failed. = Comprobación de las actualizaciones ha fallado.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Andras

Hi all,

First of all, currently I don't see the need for an es_AR specific 
translation because:

1) We try to keep a neutral spanish translation (and yet there's too 
much entries to be corrected), in order to be used by all 20 spanish 
locales (yes, there are too much of them!), this involves avoiding 
specific tenses, the argentinian "voseo" used on some locales of Central 
and South America, and the tenses corresponding to the second plural 
form "vosotros" used only at Spain. There are, however some terms that 
have some conflicts like the translation of 'file', because spanish 
people (from Spain) prefer the translation 'fichero', and all others are 
used to translate it 'archivo'.

2) Most important, we don't have that many collaborators to be able to 
maintain two separate translations, even if both share the vast majority 
of the strings.

Regarding the correction sent by burbuja, I can confirm that yes, it is 
horribly translated, but one problem arises here: the string is found on 
OOo's Pootle, not in LibO specific strings. It was corrected already on 
OOo's Pootle server like this: "Falló la búsqueda de actualizaciones." 
Both proposed translations were not very suitable, because "Comprobación 
de las actualizaciones ha fallado." has style problems (it's a too 
literal translation from english, and uses passive voice, which spanish 
should avoid whenever possible), and "No se encontró ninguna 
actualización." doesn't represents what the english string states (it's 
too liberal, because the application failed when searching for updates, 
and the translation implies that the search succeded, but no update was 
found, and there's another string for that situation).

Best regards,

Santiago

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