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Re: Common Translations

 

Excellent. I making excel sheet. will send invite to all. give me your gmail
id.
:)

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Alok Mahendroo <alokisabelle@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> No probs guys.. I have an alternate gmail id too.. :)
> On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 16:14 +0530, nukul sehgal wrote:
> > I think everybody except alok is on gmail.
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Ashutosh Kumar Singh
> > <akapribot@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >         Its nice too. But where would be the sheet? Google docs? But
> >         then we need all to have google account.
> >
> >
> >         I need the views of others too. I request everyone to tell
> >         what they think.
> >
> >
> >
> >         On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:19 PM, nukul sehgal
> >         <nuse0111@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >                 Ya sure.. Nice idea. One more suggestion - Why not we
> >                 make an excel sheet. Give privileges and rights to
> >                 change then and there. Also it will be easier to
> >                 manage and will be available for future purposes also.
> >
> >
> >
> >                 On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Ashutosh Kumar Singh
> >                 <akapribot@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >                         I think creating a list of such words will be
> >                         the best idea and putting that on our
> >                         translations page. As I said before too, there
> >                         are many computing words that are alien in
> >                         regular Hindi spoken by people. I prefer them
> >                         to be just written in Hindi without
> >                         translating as below because instead of
> >                         learning that extra words (exact translated
> >                         words), people would be more comfortable with
> >                         these :-
> >
> >
> >                         click as क्लिक
> >                         pointer as pointer
> >                         Desktop डेस्कटोप
> >                         Laptop लैपटोप
> >                         Screen स्क्रीन
> >                         Monitor मौनिटर
> >                         Printer प्रिन्टर
> >                         Speaker स्पीकर
> >                         Microphone माईक
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >                         I request all to contribute that words (and
> >                         their translation) which they think should be
> >                         on the list. Lets do it soon and work to make
> >                         our dream come true of translating Ubuntu in
> >                         Hindi upto 100% in next release.
> >
> >
> >                         Keep mailing words and its translation.
> >
> >
> >
> >                         On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 7:11 PM, nukul sehgal
> >                         <nuse0111@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >                                 thats all fine but what about
> >                                 applications, administration. Are
> >                                 these words not going to be
> >                                 complicated. And it is not better to
> >                                 write click as क्लिक and pointer
> >                                 as सूचक or संकेतक or better to stay
> >                                 with pointer as it is.
> >
> >
> >
> >                                 On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Alok
> >                                 <alokmahendroo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >                                         To make a uniformity of
> >                                         instructions for the
> >                                         translators.. I'd suggest
> >                                         circulating a list of accepted
> >                                         terminology so that there is
> >                                         no ambiguity
> >                                         about such terminology. Also
> >                                         I'd suggest keeping it limited
> >                                         right now to
> >                                         the usage of an average
> >                                         deasktop/laptop user and not
> >                                         going into RAM/ROM
> >                                         etc...
> >
> >                                         Desktop डेस्कटोप
> >                                         Laptop लैपटोप
> >                                         Screen स्क्रीन
> >                                         Monitor मौनिटर
> >                                         Printer प्रिन्टर
> >                                         Speaker स्पीकर
> >                                         Microphone माईक (mike is a
> >                                         more common usage than
> >                                         microphone)
> >
> >                                         regards
> >                                         Alok
> >                                         On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 17:18
> >                                         +0530, Abhijeet K. Singh
> >                                         wrote:
> >
> >
> >                                         > So then, we are going with,
> >                                         > Mouse: माउस
> >                                         > KeyBoard: कीबोर्ड
> >                                         > Touchpad: टचपैड
> >                                         >
> >                                         > Then, i guess the same
> >                                         should go for screen, desktop,
> >                                         domputer, other
> >                                         > peripherals and other words
> >                                         that pertain to the computing
> >                                         or
> >                                         > multimedia technology and
> >                                         are not common or non-existent
> >                                         in regular
> >                                         > hindi. The translation then
> >                                         would be limited to
> >                                         instructions and not
> >                                         > creating new tricky and
> >                                         toungue-twisting words. Should
> >                                         we make a list
> >                                         > or trust our instincts?
> >                                         > How about translation of
> >                                         phrases like 'system
> >                                         settings', 'pointing and
> >                                         > clicking' etc. 'Click' is
> >                                         tricky one, at some places it
> >                                         works just
> >                                         > fine to replacing it with
> >                                         'दबाना', other times the only
> >                                         viable option
> >                                         > seems to use 'क्लिक'. What
> >                                         would suggest to use in lieu
> >                                         of
> >                                         > 'pointing/pointer' and
> >                                         'hover/hovering' (as in hover
> >                                         click).
> >                                         >
> >
> >
> >                                         >
> >
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> >                                 Regards,
> >                                 Nukul Sehgal
> >                                 (+91-9805577098)
> >                                 nuse0111@xxxxxxxxx
> >                                 Jaypee University of Information
> >                                 Technology
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> >                 (+91-9805577098)
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> >                 Jaypee University of Information Technology
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