Re: A Translation Workshop

[Arafat Medini <lumina at silverpen dot de>]

I stopped reading in the middle of your mail ;)

To the content->Yep great idea!

but pleeease be a little bit shorter ;)

yours
Arafat

Am Do, den 22.04.2004 um 15:27 Uhr -0700 schrieb Abdulaziz Al-Arfaj:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm sure we all love this mailing list. Its a great
> place to get quick answers from the experts to a
> translation problem you might be facing, or if you
> just want quick opinions from other translators on
> some issue.
> 
> However, when your looking for a deep and
> extra-informative analysis of a translation problem
> your facing, or if you want to give such an analysis
> of a problem you once faced, the mailing list just
> isn't appropriate. This list is for those of us in a
> hurry.
> 
> Thats why I suggest that in addition to this list, we
> have a translation workshop on the Arabeyes wiki,
> which would not be a forum environment, but more of a
> noisy experimentation lab. Someone might have an
> opinion about why they think one translation of a word
> is better than another, or want to discuss a certain
> methodology to translate certain types of sentences,
> so they put it into a well-formulated article, and
> they can supplement and fortify their opinions with
> analysis, examples and arguments, while others would
> add to it or remove things from it, in true scientific
> experimentation fashion.
> 
> I suggest that such an endeavour be implemented on our
> wiki because that seems the easiest and most flexible
> way possible. I'll create (and be completely
> responsible for maintaining) the workshop's homepage,
> and write out a few articles, and wait for others to
> do the same. If we find that one article is
> particularly insightful or useful, we'll put it in a
> seperate page and link to it, and so on and so
> forth...
> 
> I would like to hear if anyone has any ideas on how to
> better implement this idea, or if there are any
> objections or misgivings about implementing this idea
> in the first place (i.e. if you think this idea sucks
> :).
> 
> If there aren't any objections, I'll start laying out
> the main page on Saturday, maybe Sunday. I really want
> to hear as many opinions as possible about this. Salam
> 
> Abdulaziz,
> 
> 
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