[libreoffice-users] English speakers in translators team

Hi :)
It might sound contra-intuitive but it might  really help if a few native English speakers could 
join the international translators team.  Preferably English (US) but even my (GB) seems to have 
been a big help.  


Even people that don't speak any other language other than English could help quite a lot.  Quite a 
lot of the internal descriptions were written by non-natives and/or geeks so the international 
translators team is now trying to proof-read the English and smooth-out oddly convoluted or 
nonsensical or even just things that look right but somehow feel wrong (or the other way around).  


Their list uses English for posting to the list so you really don't need a 2nd language in order to 
be a huge help there.  

Actually the same thing probably applies to other languages too.  If you only speak one language 
then you could still probably help a lot.  It's just that almost all translations seem to be done 
from the English so it's more crucial to get that one right or at least easier to read.  



Err there was the old joke about 

Q1:  "What do you call a person that can speak lots of languages?"
A1:  "Multilingual" (or Polyglot of course)

Q2:  "What do you call someone that can only speak 1 language?"
A2:  "English"  (or Japanese too apparently, as a Japanese buddy was telling me (in English))


Anyway, this is one time that even if that is true you can still help the translators team.  

Thanks and regards from 
Tom :)  

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