Forum .LRN Q&A: Spanish dotLRN translation

Hey there,

I'm currently helping with the spanish dotLRN translation and I have notice that there are some other people doing it as well. Therefore, I would like to use this thread to agree with you about a common language of translation.

Just as our fellow Germans have been discussing whether to use the "You or you?" I would like to address some of these issues in Spanish.

Please if you are translating in Spanish for dotLRN please write here so we can start our conversation regarding the common language words to be used.

Muchas gracias y adios amigos,

Ernie

Jorge,

How are you? I hope you are doing fine.

When I was translating the forums, I encountered a bunch of words that I really don't know which way they should be translated. Here are a list of words that I'm not really shure which word we should use to translate:

Attachments: Archivos Adjuntos?
Body: Cuerpo del mensaje?
closed: cerrado / inhabilitado??
Confirm?: Confirmar? / Es correcto?
disable: desabilitar?
disabled: desabilitado?
Disabled Forums: Foros de discusion deshabilitados?
Email to a friend: Enviar email a terceros?
Forum: Foro de Discusión
Forum Posting: Enviando mensaje al foro de discusion (este puede que salga mas en terminos de contexto)
Fwd:: Re-enviar:?
Replies: Contestaciones?
Your Note: Su Comentario?

Words that I couldn't even start to translate 😊

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I would like to hear your comments about the translated words and if you agree with those, cool. Otherwise, just let me know what other suggestion we can use.

Same as if you need help with other modules or words... Muchas gracias,

Ernie

Hi
The same way there is a Portuguese" and "Brazilian POrtuguese", should we have two Spanish (Spain, Latin American)? The differences aro often quite big, specially in computer terms. I was just looking at yahoo in spain and in argentina and they are pretty different

How about following one of these big sites as standards?

Hi Ernie,

I confirm your translation:

Attachments: Archivos adjuntos
Body: Cuerpo del mensaje
closed: cerrado
Confirm?: Confirmar
disable: desactivar
disabled: desactivado
Disabled Forums: Foros de discusión desactivados
Email to a friend: Enviar a un amigo
Forum: Foro de discusión (or) Foro
Forum Posting: Mensajes del foro (or) Mensajes
Fwd:: Reenviar
Replies: Respuestas
Your Note: Su comentario

Hi, everybody

Travelling out of city.

In a few days i'll return.

Regards.

/Jorge

Hi Ernie,

Check this thread out: message-view?message_id=64636

I've seen it and I was wondering (I don't understand everything in english) if we have to wait or not to go on. There's some message that can't be translated, an example is the world "no": it's used as the negative (not yes) and as the "there is no ..."; we can't translate that.

In any case as you suggested, we need to agree on a common vocabulary.

Definitively, yes!

• Files: Documentos (when it's a porlet title), archivo(s) when we refer to specifics files.

Create = Alta? Crear? Añadir? (aqui creo que dependeria el caso, pero uds. me pueden decir que les parece).

I agree. Create a file is "añadir" or "crear". "Alta" is for "join a group/forum ..."

• Classes: in Spain, "Clases" is used when you go physically to a classroom, when it's online, we prefer "curso".
• Templates: Plantillas
• Archived: Archivados
• FAQ: Preguntas más frecuentes
• Subject: Asignatura
• Departamentos: Departamentos. "Facultad" (faculty?) is a set of "departamentos".
• Edit Pre-approved Email Servers: Editar dominios de correo pre-aprobados
• Forums: Foros
• Item: "Elemento" is not used. Maybe it would be better to leave it as "item".
• Permissions: Permisos
• Occurrences: if it's in a search context then "ocurrencias"
• live version: Versión activa

• Charter: privilegio (or) carta. I'm not sure. In which context did you see it?
• Thread: hilo
• Posting Policy: política de envío
• View: vista
• package instance: instancia de paquete/aplicación. Here too, it depends on the context.
• Unapproved: no aprobado (or) sin aprobar

Moreover, I do agree with Rafael that we need to have diferent versions of Spanish adapted to countries. However, I wonder whether is best to have one generic spanish versin first or start multiple translations simultaneously. What do you think?

I agree with Rafael, me too. I think that it would be very dificult to have a generic spanish translation; it would be better to have es_ES, es_AR, etc...