Deutsch forum?

juwb · Post by **juwb** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 11:08 pm

Hello,

just by randomly browsing through the forums I found several threads which were (partially) written in German. On some occassions, this seems to have annoyed people who don't understand the language (which is perfectly understandable -- you can't follow a discussion when you don't understand half the people participating).

I think it would be nice to add a German forum (just one forum, no subcategories) so the native speakers would have a place to chit-chat without disturbing others.

I know several forums that provide such language based subforums (e.g. Gentoo forum) and it seems to have worked out well for them.

iceman · Post by **iceman** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 11:17 pm

I love google translator

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 11:31 pm

I like the idea; how about one general "foreign" forum with the convention of putting the language in the thread title? But just for the purpose of being able to post in your own language without getting flamed, everything of public interest should be held in English.
The German threads so far were mostly support related and morphed from English to German along the way.

Post by **Lucifer** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 1:21 am

Why not just have a convention where if someone doesn't write in english, they put it in the title? (not that I care that much)

Phytotron · Post by **Phytotron** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 11:37 am

Or you could have one of those deals where on the homepage you have the banners with flag graphics on them which read English, German, French, Spanish, Polish, whatever. Then the entire forums are translated beneath each one. Maybe that's a pain in the arse to set up. I dunno.

juwb · Post by **juwb** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 12:26 pm

translate.google.com wrote:These translation programs are nevertheless worth no pfifferling. No, really, I do not like these parts. By the translations becomes simply only bad me...

No thanks.

Phytotron · Post by **Phytotron** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 4:49 pm

Lost in Translation

Post by **Tank Program** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 6:03 pm

I'll think about it...

philippeqc · Post by **philippeqc** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 4:45 pm

I think having rooms for people wanting to express themself in a language other than english could have the benefit of drawing in a bit more of the community to this forum. Its easy to imagine that some people might be scared away when seeing only the occasional post in their own language, if they even manage to Enasdklfjfind one in the sea of english English post. Spanish, German and French come to mind.

-ph

Walking Tree · Post by **Walking Tree** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 9:07 pm

french especially as the french generally know no english lol

Phytotron · Post by **Phytotron** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 4:36 pm

Americans don't generally know English, either.

Fonkay · Post by **Fonkay** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 9:20 pm

I like the lost in translation bit.

Post by **Lucifer** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 9:34 pm

Original (from my history notes):

From Lucifer's Notebook wrote: The English, in turn, colonized by taking land from the Indians and driving them out in the start of a genocidal campaign that would end "From sea to shining sea"

The translation:

Translated X times wrote: The English, in the restoration nonupdated relative, colonized, making
the examinación of the track of the Indian and controlling it to the
a have gone away external to the campaign of the beginning of a
Genozids, of that sea" the sea of "From that he polishes that
would finish;

Curiously, the phrase "I am not a prisoner, I am a free man" doesn't work at all. The french translation is perfect, but going from French to German translates as "could not translates". Is it a German cultural thing that their language can't translate that phrase from French?

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 12:36 am

We don't have words for "free man", never needed them

Post by **Lucifer** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 1:20 am

z-man wrote:We don't have words for "free man", never needed them

TANSTAAFM?