Translators (all languages but French) requested/needed

Darkson · Post by **Darkson** » Wed Nov 06, 2002 10:25 pm

I could translate it into English "English".

There again, with my spelling ability, maybe not

Remco · Post by **Remco** » Wed Nov 06, 2002 10:26 pm

Only the northern half of Belgium speaks Flemish, the southern half speaks French. In Brussel they should speak both, but try telling that to a wafel-vender.

If the only thing I have to do is translate English to Dutch, I can do that. I doubt there will be much need for a Dutch version though, as most Dutch people can write in English rather well. They can also speak it quite fairly, albeit with an accent (most of the time).

Darkson · Post by **Darkson** » Wed Nov 06, 2002 10:40 pm

I have noticed that the Germans and Dutch I've meet all seem to speak and write English better than we brits do

.

I sad state of affairs for our educational system.

Post by **GalakStarscraper** » Wed Nov 06, 2002 11:32 pm

Okay so far for official volunteers I have:

French
Spanish
Danish
Dutch
Finnish
Hungarian
Portugese
Swedish
Japanese

I'd still like to get German and Italian if possible ...

9 Languages confirmed so far ... very very cool ... thanks to everyone for volunteering. I'll be probably contacting you all in January to ask for the translation. The translation won't be very much as most of the translation are skill names and warning messages.

Galak

Post by **GalakStarscraper** » Wed Nov 06, 2002 11:37 pm

Oh and sincere stupid american apologies to the Dannes on the list for confusing your language with that of another country. Very sorry.

Galak

Harleqin · Post by **Harleqin** » Wed Nov 06, 2002 11:55 pm

GalakStarscraper wrote:Oh and sincere stupid american apologies to the Dannes on the list for confusing your language with that of another country. Very sorry.

Galak

Can't win 'em all Galak

So, are are mailing us the stuff that needs translation? You might have written it in your first post, but it's way past midnight and I really ought to get some sleep so I can't really be bothered to look

Well, I have this week off so I'd like to get started on it. Just mail me or PM me if there's anything.

Post by **GalakStarscraper** » Thu Nov 07, 2002 12:51 am

Harleqin wrote:Can't win 'em all Galak So, are are mailing us the stuff that needs translation? You might have written it in your first post, but it's way past midnight and I really ought to get some sleep so I can't really be bothered to look Well, I have this week off so I'd like to get started on it. Just mail me or PM me if there's anything.

MMMMMMM .... sorry ... I won't have the file ready for another month or two. I just wanted to gauge how much assistance I would get when I'm ready. So nothing immediate ... sorry.

Galak

veron · Post by **veron** » Thu Nov 07, 2002 7:11 am

Pardon me for going off-topic, but...

Remco wrote:... as most Dutch people can write in English rather well.

Remco, I'm sorry, but I have to disagree on that one. I play chess at this Dutch site called Pimpernel (www.pimpernel.com), most of the people in there are Dutch. The poor quality of written English always surprises me, I thought that in Europe everyone is quite fluent with English. I mean, sure you can understand (most of the time) what they are saying, but the number of spelling errors... Wow!

But hey, maybe they are just Germans, pretending to be Dutch to get you guys a bad rep??

DaFrenchCoach · Post by **DaFrenchCoach** » Thu Nov 07, 2002 7:19 am

Well, this will be also off-topic, but I can't resist.

I read somewhere this (free translation):

If someone speaks 3 different languages very well, he's a trilingual;
If someone speaks 2 different languages very well, he's bilingual;
If someone speaks only one language, he's french people.

Redfang · Post by **Redfang** » Thu Nov 07, 2002 9:15 am

Galak,

If you really need somebody, I could do a Dutch translation (though at least until the next year starts, I'll be to busy probably), but I don't think a Dutch version would be useful. I remember some of the translated flyers GW had a few years ago, and fantasy stuff in Dutch sounds REALLY stupid (IMVHO).

Since all GW Games are still in English here (thank God for that), I'd think that people would prefer to use an english version anyway (I would)

Just let me hear.

R

Harleqin · Post by **Harleqin** » Thu Nov 07, 2002 9:36 am

GalakStarscraper wrote:
MMMMMMM .... sorry ... I won't have the file ready for another month or two. I just wanted to gauge how much assistance I would get when I'm ready. So nothing immediate ... sorry.

Galak

Two months? Well, that's ok. I also have a week off in January

Evil Git · Post by **Evil Git** » Thu Nov 07, 2002 10:02 am

DaFrenchCoach wrote:Well, this will be also off-topic, but I can't resist.

I read somewhere this (free translation):

If someone speaks 3 different languages very well, he's a trilingual;
If someone speaks 2 different languages very well, he's bilingual;
If someone speaks only one language, he's french people.

Very funny DFC but we all know that it should be english.

If someone can't understand you then just speak slower and louder!!

only joking

Post by **DoubleSkulls** » Thu Nov 07, 2002 10:18 am

norev wrote:Remco, I'm sorry, but I have to disagree on that one. I play chess at this Dutch site called Pimpernel (www.pimpernel.com), most of the people in there are Dutch. The poor quality of written English always surprises me, I thought that in Europe everyone is quite fluent with English. I mean, sure you can understand (most of the time) what they are saying, but the number of spelling errors... Wow!

But hey, maybe they are just Germans, pretending to be Dutch to get you guys a bad rep??

Nah, they are probably English. The Dutch speak better English than we do.

Deathwing · Post by **Deathwing** » Thu Nov 07, 2002 11:39 am

Who's doing Scottish?
Blood Bowl-the game of Fantasy Fitba.

Methusalah · Post by **Methusalah** » Thu Nov 07, 2002 11:42 am

I have a friend who translates english into German for companies on the web, I'm sure he'd help with a BB translation if I asked him.