From: Loup Vaillant <loup.vaillant@gmail.com>
To: David Allsopp <dra-news@metastack.com>
Cc: "Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)" <mihamina@lab.vectoris.fr>,
caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Call for translators of the Unix system programming course
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 13:04:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6f9f8f4a0905130404p3da0cc17ob00ff922bd1d6535@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <005101c9d3b8$eeec3330$ccc49990$@com>
2009/5/13 David Allsopp <dra-news@metastack.com>:
> Loup Vaillant wrote:
>> Moreover, a good translation should also translate the tone of the
>> authors. Any distortion would be very difficult to recover from. It
>> may even be important to choose between British and American, and be
>> consistent with that choice. I consider myself fluent, yet *this* is
>> completely out of my reach.
>
> Given that both of the authors of the original text speak fluent English,
> might it be easiest just to ask them to read and comment on the reviewed
> translation?
Good point. That would alleviate the tone problem, provided they have
the time (I won't make any assumption).
Loup
>
>
> David
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-13 11:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-11 22:56 Daniel Bünzli
2009-05-12 12:06 ` [Caml-list] " Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
2009-05-13 9:38 ` Loup Vaillant
2009-05-13 10:52 ` David Allsopp
2009-05-13 11:04 ` Loup Vaillant [this message]
2009-05-13 11:43 ` Daniel Bünzli
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