[glug-t] Re: [tamilinix] Re: Tamil Translation of the GNU Manifesto

Quoting barathee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx:

> Vijay,
> this mail is from Vaseeharan <t_vasee@xxxxxxxxx>, Taking care of KDE
> localisation. He is insisting the samething I have told you. Please try to
> make the source available, so that the people can enhance the translation.

I will definitely make the sources available.

> Vasee Vaseeharan wrote:
> >Good start. However, it has many technical terms still in English or
> >Tanglish (e.g. programs) that do have good tamil translations. It is a

I did not translate a lot of technical words to Tamil because, it would make 
the text hard to understand. For example 'program' has a really wierd name in 
Tamil. I bet no body will understand that. The primary reason why we chose to 
translate the text is to make it easy for everybody to understand the text. If 
the translation itself makes the text hard to understand, only fewer people 
would read it.

If you have any other way of solving the problem do let me know.

For a lot of technical words that occur infrequently in the text, I chose to 
write them in English. I did not translate them to Tamil for the above reason. 
I could have phonetically transliterated them, but that would force the reader 
to spell out the word eventhough it is written in Tamil. I assume that most of 
the people would know a bit of English and it would be more comfortable for 
them to read the words in English than have to spell out each word in tamil.

I looked into the magazine 'Tamil Computer' for how Tamil people in the 
computer industry, choose to use/avoid technical terms in Tamil. I found that 
most of them chose to use English words for technical terms. Whether this is 
good or bad is not the issue. Whether the text is understandable and reaches a 
wider audience is the issue.

Finally, the team that translated the text, and myself who made some decisions 
on how technical terms had to be dealt with, are not experts in Tamil 
translation. We could be wrong. If you think so, please do let us know. What I 
have presented here is what I had in mind, when I made these decisions.

Vijay

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