[libreoffice-l10n] Re: [libreoffice-l10n] [The Document Foundation – Pootle server] message by Zethan

Hi Zethan,

First of all, great to see interest in doing Quechua but I must admit 
(I'm not a LO admin by the way) that I'm slightly worried. Not being a 
native speaker is not necessarily a problem but not being fully fluent 
is, to my mind, potentially an issue, speaking from experience. I am 
just spending untold hours of highly frustrating proofreading over on 
Ubuntu where over a long time, an enthusiastic but semi-fluent 
translator has totally messed up the Ubuntu localization.

Now, I'm not suggesting you would do the same but there is a danger that 
if you're not fluent by your own admission, your translation may be seen 
as less-than-good by users. Which can have a hugely detrimental effect 
up the long-term uptake if people get it in their heads that "software 
in Quechua makes you cringe". So without the input of a fully fluent 
speaker, I would be a bit worried about the quality issue. Is there a 
chance maybe of teaming up with someone else? I know Mozilla has a 
Quechua team, perhaps there's someone there?

Having said that, if you are familiar with the new language packs 
Microsoft did for Quechua (Win 8 and Office 2013), you may be able to 
use that as a very effective cribsheet, which would also have the 
advantage of keeping the terminology consistent, nothing more 
frustrating in a minoritised language than terminoloigy at loggerheads 
across products. Are you familiar with those?

leis na dùrachdan,

Michael

14/08/2013 11:02, sgrìobh yachaq@hotmail.co.nz:
> I would like to undertake a Southern Quechua (Cusco Quechua specificially) translation. I am not a 
> native or even fluent speaker, but I speak it to a significant degree (and am getting better). It 
> seems to me rather a large gap that one of the most spoken Amerindian languages (with millions of 
> speakers) should have no translation of its own. Also, I would be happy to hand over the lead of 
> such an undertaking to a (committed) native, fluent, or fluenter-than-I speaker if one came along.


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