Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 20:22:31 +0100 From: "Jesus A. Mora Marin" <amora@zoom.es> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: "Francisco Reyes" <reyesf@super.zippo.com>, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spanish documentation - needed anyhow? Message-ID: <199712102020.VAA04865@silvester.zoom.es> In-Reply-To: <19971210110947.23597@lemis.com> References: <199712091545.HAA03058@super.zippo.com>; from Francisco Reyes on Wed, Dec 10, 1997 at 01:03:02AM %2B0000
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> > It would be best if they could be hosted at www.freebsd since this > > will get those pages mirrored. > > Sure, I wasn't saying "Just Spain". > > > The mirroring is important since they will also be needed for > > Central and South America. > > Will they be happy with "real" Spanish? When I was at Tandem, we had > problems with our Spanish documentation because it had all been > translated by Mexicans, and the customers in Spain were very unhappy > about it. Would they have been complaining about the difference in > dialect, or possibly just about the quality? > > Greg > Maybe both reasons contribute to the final result. It may seem a trivial question but you're right. It's true that there is a literary koine for every people whose first language is Spanish. But you can find differences between technical texts translated in Spain and South America. This is not surprising, since we are dealing with a new science, that requires to talk about new concepts. To express those new concepts -originated in a foreign language- different approaches can be used. For some reason, translators in South America use to be more purist when facing those neologism and try to find an equivalent Spanish expression. This only can be praised, but can also puzzle people familiar with the original -English- terms. This is a question I want to discuss with Francisco, since he comes from the other side of Atlantic, and I'm a Spaniard, so surely we have somehow different opinions. And of course opinions from every people concerned with this subject are welcome (don't blame on us once the work is over :) Jesus ------ Jesus A. Mora Marin, MD (aka EA7HAC, ex-EC7DVE) Email: amora@zoom.es "As a matter of fact, we at M$ are working hard to pave the road of progress for the upper New Man back to the trees." From "Brains? Who needs them?", (Mind$uckers Press)
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