[Mageia-i18n] Translating the name of the distribution Mageja

Wed Nov 14 20:01:24 CET 2012

On 14 November 2012 14:24, Romain d'Alverny <rdalverny at gmail.com> wrote:
+> So you do so as well with the name of people or places? (just curious)
+In Slovene language we use declension on names too. Our language rules
+are pretty complex and we also have a lot of exceptions. Of course
+there are some names that are protected and the simplest way out from
+there is to use adjective so that declension is used there and not on
+the name itself.
+For example to translate word Mageia in web pages was really a
+challenge as it wasn't always 100% obvious if that word goes to the
+community, association, project or distribution. In such cases I used
+more common phrases or words then absolutely correct by all the rules
+of our language. We have so called "book language" (direct word for
+word translation) but it's almost exclusively used in books, national
+TV and radio. Not to mention many dialects we have. Many have their
+own rules and words from neighbour countries (Italy, Austria, Hungary
+and Croatia) so it's a big challenge to understand them fully.
+
+So our language is quite hard to learn well and we're also small
+country (only 2 millions). But that doesn't stop some people from
+Europe or even Japan to learn it ;).
+
+I hope that these facts are interesting to some ;).
+
+Have fun in waiting alpha3,
+Filip.
+