[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [freeciv-data] Re: Translation of Freeciv motto

["SamBC" <sambc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

IMHO, it will be utterly impossible to translate the motto effectively into
any language unless they have both:

1) The name of the game, 'Civilisation' and the word, 'civilisation' being
the same

2) The double-meaning of the word 'free' (do any languages have that other
than english?)

Translating only one of the many meanings will defeat the object of the
motto entirely

Perhaps it should be left in English for purely stylistic reasons?


SamBC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ChrisK@xxxxxxxx [mailto:ChrisK@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 18 July 2000 10:04
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> Cc: freeciv-data@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: [freeciv-data] Re: Translation of Freeciv
> motto
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Mathias Hasselmann wrote:
> >
> > "The Sid Meyer's Civilization should costing nothing." is
> > surely part of the prone. It's probably the first thought
> > of the author (who was it - probably we can ask him?).
> >
> > Then we also have "The sources of Sid Meyer's Civilization
> > should be free."
> >
> > And political: "Civilization (as a group of people) should
> > be free."
>
> What about: "a Civilization is free to choose its own way
> of development, and its way of living" that's what I prefer :)
>
> >
> > I do not know how someone wants to make a *good* translation
> > of this. Since nearly all users of free software have to be
> > able to read English. The next point is that current
> > implementation of motto rendering looks terrible and
> > implementing a high quality algorithm would be a waste of
> > time (for this usage).
> >
>
> In my opinion - as a player - it should be left to the
> translators, whether to leave it in english or not. Different
> languages give different oportunities to translate. A challange
> for creativity.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Chris
>
>
>