Translators: a helping hand

["Djihed Afifi" <djihedlists at googlemail dot com>]

Salam


Some of you may know that I live in Manchester, UK. Nearby there is
the University of Salford[1], they operate a unique course called
"Arabic/English Translation and Interpreting" [2]. Fits well with what
we do, right? It is the only course of its type in the United Kingdom.

I recently met a lecturer who lectures this course at that university.
He is named Anice[3]. I've talked to him about what we do and the
difficulties we face in translation and i18n, showed him the website
and I think he is willing to give us a helping hand.

However I wouldn't like to request that he signs with the
website/mailing lists for now. Instead, I will meet him face to face
with our issues.

I have arranged to meet weekly with him with weekly issues, thanks to
him (he is quite a good guy). First meeting is Friday 3:00. Yes, this
Friday 13th October.

So what I would like I/us/you to do is to compile a list of issues on
translation and Arabic linguistics, like say, plural forms, or the
recent Amr/Masdar debate, I will present these issues to him and let
you know what he thinks (and hopefully borrow a couple of books on
translation from him, hehe). This is our chance to get an expert
working with us, so use it to its full potential. I will post minutes
of the meetings with him. Please use this wiki page [4] to post the
issues, let me know if you don't have a wiki account.

For this week, what I would like to do is go through essential.po of
the Technical Dictionary quickly with him. Can you please mark any
strings that you think need revision as fuzzy, and freeze it by Friday
morning, I'll work it out with him.

If you guys have another working model please let me know, but please
understand that I wouldn't like to overload him with stuff.

Djihed

[1] http://www.salford.ac.uk
[2] http://www.salford.ac.uk/course-finder/course/115
[3] I have to request permission before posting his full name, so hang on.
[4] http://wiki.arabeyes.org/i18n_issues