DUST Search - Announcement:Community Spotlight: D Legend's Portuguese Translations

Needless Sacermendor wrote:

I don't assume the translations are well done ... I have no idea, don't really care and I even said so in my other post.

I didn't correct anything about your post and never said it had 4 errors ... I said the devblog butchered the English language and had 4 errors.

Are you going to pay for his work to be proof read ? are you or your wife going to proof read it for him ? CCP have said in the devblog they're not in a position to provide a proper portuguese or other language translations at the moment since they don't have inhouse speakers and can't justify spending money yet on translations they can't do inhouse.

CCP didn't get a professional proof reader for their English devblogs etc. never mind the other languages ! ... bear in mind English isn't the native language in Iceland.

I'm not a foreigner and don't call me one ... I'm English and I live in England !

There's nothing different about someone stepping up and putting their own time into providing a service to the community ... whether it's a fitting tool or a translation into another language ... however bad it may be ... I don't feel the need to campaign to get their devblogs proof read by an English professor because they're not written in 'The Queens English' ... 99% of people educated in England couldn't speak English properly if they tried, I'm not perfect myself, but the English version of the devblogs is understandable as is this portuguese translation by other people accounts ... https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1342858#post1342858

Edit : Also have you seen those fitting tools and trackers ... there's nothing "good" about them, they are however better than anything else available at the moment since 'they work' ... the fitting tool is just a spreadsheet with formulas and (to be honest) some horrible colours highlighting fields ... I could have done a better job but I'm not all over his Community Spotlight or forum threads saying how bad it is, I'm just glad he did it because I couldn't be bothered putting in the time ! /edit

You're clearly just on a campaign to push your language into the gaming industry, yet when someone steps up to try to help people you shout them down for not doing it right ... well if you want something doing properly ... DO IT YOURSELF !


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Summ Dude Militaires-Sans-Frontieres 41	Posted - 2013.10.02 07:54:00 - [1] - Quote Needless Sacermendor wrote: I don't assume the translations are well done ... I have no idea, don't really care and I even said so in my other post. I didn't correct anything about your post and never said it had 4 errors ... I said the devblog butchered the English language and had 4 errors. Are you going to pay for his work to be proof read ? are you or your wife going to proof read it for him ? CCP have said in the devblog they're not in a position to provide a proper portuguese or other language translations at the moment since they don't have inhouse speakers and can't justify spending money yet on translations they can't do inhouse. CCP didn't get a professional proof reader for their English devblogs etc. never mind the other languages ! ... bear in mind English isn't the native language in Iceland. I'm not a foreigner and don't call me one ... I'm English and I live in England ! There's nothing different about someone stepping up and putting their own time into providing a service to the community ... whether it's a fitting tool or a translation into another language ... however bad it may be ... I don't feel the need to campaign to get their devblogs proof read by an English professor because they're not written in 'The Queens English' ... 99% of people educated in England couldn't speak English properly if they tried, I'm not perfect myself, but the English version of the devblogs is understandable as is this portuguese translation by other people accounts ... https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1342858#post1342858 Edit : Also have you seen those fitting tools and trackers ... there's nothing "good" about them, they are however better than anything else available at the moment since 'they work' ... the fitting tool is just a spreadsheet with formulas and (to be honest) some horrible colours highlighting fields ... I could have done a better job but I'm not all over his Community Spotlight or forum threads saying how bad it is, I'm just glad he did it because I couldn't be bothered putting in the time ! /edit You're clearly just on a campaign to push your language into the gaming industry, yet when someone steps up to try to help people you shout them down for not doing it right ... well if you want something doing properly ... DO IT YOURSELF ! I'm pretty much 100% with you on this. Katana, I can understand you being a little annoyed that this wasn't translated very well. But to be this upset about it, to take it as a personal attack? I just don't get that. Do you know what I do when I read something poorly translated into English? I chuckle at it. Because it's funny. I would never think of taking it as an 'insult to my culture'. It just means the translator didn't have the best grasp of the language. And for someone doing it for free, that's fine. Now I know you aren't mad at D Legendary about this, which is good. But really, it doesn't make sense to be this mad at anybody. CCP doesn't have the money to translate into every language, it's not the end of the world. But anyway, bottom line, somehow twisting an honest attempt at translating something into an 'insult to your language and culture', it's just.....well it's just plain silly. Oh and one more thing: KatanaPT wrote: If you aren't portuguese you should never even comment in this situation because you are an outsider to this whole mess. This right here is a pretty darn ignorant comment. As someone who speaks a language, and is aware that there are other languages in the world, my opinion on this matter is exactly as valid as anyone else meeting these criteria.