Make a new team from scratch (Argentine Spanish)

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dimecres, 19 de març del 2025, a les 13:49:21 (Hora estàndard d’Europa 
central), Eloy Cuadra va escriure:
> El miércoles, 19 de marzo de 2025, Albert Astals Cid escribió:
> > El diumenge, 9 de març del 2025, a les 17:40:39 (Hora estàndard d’Europa
> > 
> > central), Alejo Fernandez va escriure:
> > > Hello!
> > 
> > Hello, sorry it took this much time to answer.
> > 
> > > I am pleased to tell you that I would like to form a new team of KDE
> > > translators. I have already contacted Eley Cuadra to create a "variant".
> > > However, he told me that the best thing would be to create a new team
> > > from
> > > scratch. I would like to apply for that position. I am translating
> > > Trinity
> > > Desktop Environment and have translated Q4OS to es_AR.
> > 
> > Can you briefly explain what is your plan for this translation?
> > 
> > We have lived for 30 years without the need of forking the Spanish
> > translation so I am interested in knowing why it is needed now.
> 
> Honestly, I don't know either. I told Alejo that I could understand his
> wanting to adapt the existing translations to the Argentine variant,
> especially regarding the use of tenses and the voseo (that is commomplace in
> Argentina). I told him he had two options: start from scratch or use the
> existing Spanish translations to adapt them to the Argentine variant, which
> is much easier. I think he misinterpreted my answer, since at no point did
> I tell him that the best option was to start from scratch. In any case, I
> haven't heard from him since.
> 
> If he wanted to move forward, I think the ideal solution would be something
> similar to what happens with Catalan and Valencian Catalan. Starting from
> scratch is extremely difficult.

I was scared that for example if the Okular translation to es_AR was 
translated only 15% the rest of the strings would be in English, but I have 
done a test creating a dummy Okular translation to es_AR that just has 1 
string translated and the rest of the strings are picked from the es 
translation so that is good.

So in that sense it seems the translation can start from scratch and any non 
translated string will be picked from the es translation.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Best regards,