[Foundation-l] Translations fundraising.wikimedia.org

Gary Kirk gary.kirk at gmail.com
Fri Dec 22 13:15:04 UTC 2006


I only joined this list today, so I don't know context of previous
discussions, but when I read in Wikizine Anthere's appeal, I wondered
where it was people wanting to help were supposed to do so, as it
seemed to all be on wikimediafoundation.org.

On 12/22/06, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22/12/06, Sam Korn <smoddy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > [reorganising thread for readability]
>
> > Well, from my experience with translating to and from Latin, Greek,
> > French and German, a good dictionary will contain notes on usage that
> > should suffice here.
>
> These are all Indo-European languages. Translating across language
> families which are less likely to share common cultural assumptions
> and practices can be far more problematic I imagine.
>
> cheers,
> Brianna
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Gary Kirk



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