[Kde-i18n-fa] groupware, spam, ham and bug

[Arash Partow]

Very true...

But in the future please say either Parsi or Persian
not farsi, I think the best example I've read of this
kind of situation was on Iranian.com and it goes:
"have you every heard a Spanish person say "I speak
español" ?"

;D


But seriously for verbs and not just IT based ones but
also ones in other areas of technology its important to
not only have the root form but all the tenses of that
word translated as well.

If the language you use doesn't adequately update itself
in the fields of science and technology, academics will
begin using other languages which do allow them to adequately
express themselves in their field of expertise. and once
thats happens you begin to pay for science and technology
to be translated from other languages into yours either via
financial incentives, or the time spent by people translating
such texts as volunteer work, where as they could have been
doing other far more important and beneficial research or some
other important and necessary activity.


Regards


Arash

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aryan Ameri"
Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: [Kde-i18n-fa] groupware, spam, ham and bug


> On Tuesday 23 December 2003 11:28, Arash Partow wrote:
> > Just to play devil's advocate what about words such as:
> >
> > spammer
> > spammed
> > spamming
> > spamee
> > spammers
>
> Actualy I don't consider it a disability of our language, or our group,
> if we can't translate these. C'mon, my US-born, native english speaker
> cousin didn't know the meaning of spam when I asked her. Now, I know
> geeks know of spam since Monthy Python, but geeks live in their own
> world, which is a bit different from the real world.
>
> These are relatively new words even in English language. It took us a
> couple of years to translate 'software' and 'hardware' to Farsi, in a
> way that was meaningful and was accepted by everyone. Now, I saw BBC
> Persian translating spam az Harz Nameh, and I liked it, and I think it
> is going to be accepted. It won't be long before we find a good
> translation for spammer, spamming, ....
>
> Long live Farsi!
>
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> Aryan Ameri
>