On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 6:34 AM, Ding Yi Chen <dchen(a)redhat.com> wrote:
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Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> 於 2014年11月6日星期四寫道:
> On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 06:48:26AM +0800, Cheng-Chia Tseng wrote:
> > > Hey everyone. I don't know if this has come up already, but: names of
> > > the new Fedora.next variants should not be translated. That is:
> > > * Fedora Workstation
> > > * Fedora Server
> > > * Fedora Cloud
> > But people don't know too much about English in my country. Easy words
> are
> > OK while technical terms might be a problem.
> >
> > It is odd to keep them untranslated as workstation, server and cloud are
> > all common words in speech.
>
> That's actually somewhat part of the problem. We want to keep them as
> part of the name, not separate merely-descriptive words. Hopefully in
> most cases there will be accompanying text which _is_ translatable.
That would be better.
By the way, we don't see organization or company use common words as brand
name.
Quite a lot companies and organizations (and project names) use common
English word.
e.g. Fedora, Red Hat, Oracle, Apple, ...
If you want to include the join-words, there are ever more like
facebook, Microsoft ...
Some make sense to translate, some don't, it all depends.
e.g. Red Hat is translated as "紅帽", Firefox is translated as "火狐"
But I have yet see any convention to translate "Fedora" in Chinese yet.
IMHO, it is better to let each translation team to decide whether to
translate or not.
They may already have some convention for whether to translate "Fedora" or
"Server".
If you are worry about web search result, fear not, state-of-art search
engine can already
map these together.
Right! In new context, I also think that there is no valid reason for not
translating (means transliterating) brand names, but discussion should
happen, and good that it is happening. If we consider a brand as a proper
noun and just transliterating it, then what is the problem?
Even in new scenario, somebody is typing searching fedora by writing it in
Hindi eg फेडोरा what a person will get, s/he won't find a page from fedora
website. S/he will get pages from write-up of a journalist instead.
I also know and understand the typical conventional logic that thinks brand
as 'untouchable'. But I would like to request to change the mindset now and
make brand a 'translatable' entry.
Thanks!
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