[Rosegarden-bugs] [ rosegarden-Bugs-1626374 ] error in translation

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Bugs item #1626374, was opened at 2007-01-02 18:49
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Category: gui
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Status: Open
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Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
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Summary: error in translation

Initial Comment:
in the French translation, bank as in sound bank is always translated as "banc", which means "bench" in French !

The correct use is "banque"

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>Comment By: Chris Cannam (cannam)
Date: 2007-01-24 11:09

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Patch #1635356 received and committed, thanks.  I've also added your name
to the list of contributing translators.  Hope that's OK.


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Comment By: Yves Guillemot (yguillemot)
Date: 2007-01-14 20:29

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Maybe this translation is not so bad because the french "banc" also has
the meaning of "shoal", which implies a large group.
Nevertheless a quick look through google only shows the use of "banque" in
MIDI sound context. The word "banque" should therefore be preferred to
"banc".


There are worse errors :

1 - The translation of "mute" by "muter".
Here, "muter" is a neologism (to find a right translation is not so easy)
built from "mute" but not understandable by a french user who can't read
english.
The french verb "muter" may be backtranslated by "to transfer" and is by
no means related to sound.

2 - The translation of menu entry "Segments->Edit With" by
"Segments->Editer Paroles".
"Editer Paroles" means "Edit Lyrics" but this menu has nothing to do with
lyrics.


I have a patch proposing new translations for these 2 entries and
replacing "banc" by "banque".
As I don't see any mean to attach it here, I'm going to send it through
the patches tracker.


BTW, currently RG includes a lot of texts still not translated in french.
If there is no more RG french translator, I will be glad to complete this
translation before the next release.

Yves


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Comment By: Chris Cannam (cannam)
Date: 2007-01-02 22:03

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Anyone know whether we actually have an active French translator these
days?  A quick glance at the svn logs doesn't seem to show any substantial
change to fr.po since the end of 2004.

If this error is as straightforward as described, it seems an odd one for
a native French speaker to make even if they aren't all that strong on
MIDI terminology.



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