[wp-polyglots] Serbian [sr_CS] translation

[K Suominen]

In the Finnish translation I used "seurantailmoitus" for TrackBack,
which translates to "tracking notification".  I didn't feel that
"TrackBack" would be recognized enough, although I think a manual of
sorts should exist for connecting the terms.  At least the admin help
page points to the page about TrackBack in English...

For PingBack I could not think of anything good, yet.  I wanted to use
a word that works in Finnish (which PingBack wouldn't), so for now
I've called it "signalointi" (signaling).

As for e-mail, yes, it is commonly translated in Finnish to
"sähköposti", "electronic mail" (or "electric mail", if you will ;-)).
 However, web is generally referred to as "web" or "web-sivusto" ("web
pages").  I've used "web-sivusto" for all instances of "web site" and
"site" ("site" does not have a specific Finnish translation).  (As an
aside, the translation for the Swedish "nät" would be "verkko", but
that's generally understood as "network" as opposed to "web", when
talking about something else than spiders (the animals) -- funny how
neighboring countries make different connections.)

Bookmarklet got translated as "suosikki", which means "favorite".  It
is a common translation used in Finnish today for both "bookmark" and
"favorite".  The diminutive "-let" does not really translate well to
Finnish.

Cheers,
+ Kim


On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 20:20:09 +0100, Stefano <steagl at people.it> wrote:
> Il Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:24:10 +0100, "Mihailo Stefanovic"
> <mikis at mikis.org> scrive:
> 
> >There are two things to consider here. First, blogging "scene" is relatively
> >immature in Serbia. There are only a dozen or two really active blogs. So,
> >my guess is that there will be many inexperienced users, and terms like
> >"pingback" and "trackback" mean absolutely nothing to them. Besides,
> >"technical users" are much more accustomed to using English only software.
> 
> This could be an issue, but new blogger  when they explere the blog
> world will learn soon the new words... maybe having a site like we are
> setting up (WordPress Wiki Italy) in serbian will help.
> 
> >Second, consider that Serbian is written primarily in Cyrillic script. So
> >the choice is either to leave them in English, which tends to look ugly (and
> >sometimes meaningless), like "URI ?? TrackBack-? ??" (URI to Trackback
> >is...); or, they could be transliterated. Like words "permalink", or "web",
> >or even "ping" which do sound naturally in Serbian, but "blogroll" and
> >"trackback" do not.
> 
> I didn't consider the different script used.. I Agree that would be
> fun have english word mixed with cyrillic text. I dunno how u
> willmnage stuff like URI or URL etc... An idea could be having the
> english tech word near the translation between brackets so you will
> have : "URI ?? ????????? (TrackBack) ???? ??"
> 
> This way you will have a a good looking and you teach unexpirienced
> user the tech word of blogworld.
> 
> >Actually, yes, I will, and I do :) E-mail is translated literally as
> >"E-posta". Now, problem with "web" is that there is only one Serbian word,
> >"mreza" as translation for "web", "network" and "net"; so we use "veb" and
> >"net" whenever "mreza" is too confusing.
> 
> LOL :) E-posta would be the same in Italina but people is accoustomed
> to this terms now.
> --
> 
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