Re: Improving technical arabic translation skills (was: Re: How to translate this sentences?)

[Youcef Rabah Rahal <rahal at arabeyes dot org>]

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Salam Kamal,

On Monday 12 April 2004 16:24, Kamal Dalal wrote:
> Salam,
>
> Ahmad Tarek's previous email made me realize (yet again) that my
> technical arabic is really bad, and I should find ways to improve it.
>
> Currently Arabeyes is hosting a huge repository of translated messages
> that appear in different software. It would be very useful and educating
> if one can search for a word(s) and see all the _messages_ that this
> word appears in, along with the arabic translations. While qamoose is
> nice for single words translations, it lacks sentence context. Try
> looking up "settings".
>
> AFAIK such a search service is not available at Arabeyes, so one can
> "cvs co" all files under /translation, grep for stuff locally, then do
> occasional "cvs update".
>
> How does this sound ?

Actually you are describing the works of the yet-to-be-active QAC :-)

http://wiki.arabeyes.org/QAC

We are supposed to review a long file containing common terms and come to an 
agreement on a standard translation (for sentences up to three words). Nadim 
has kindly wrote a perl script and created that file from Arabeyes' 
KDE/GNOME/Mandrake PO files:

http://cvs.arabeyes.org/viewcvs/translate/misc/

> I am wondering what do others do to improve their technical arabic
> translation skills.

I personally have a dictionary published by ALECSO. It does not contain very 
recent terms and Linux-related terms (and sometimes some translations are 
very bizarre) but it was very useful to me.

Does that answer your question ? Let me know if you had another idea in mind.

Salam,

- -- 
Youcef R. Rahal
Arabeyes.org
http://www.arabeyes.org/~rahal
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