Light reading : Technical terms - translate or not translate?

[Abstract]

Points well made, and I agree with them to a certain extent.  I don't know
if any classical Arabic
words or roots map well to any of these operations such as "save" , "open"
or any other standard technical term.
I imagine that when this all started some of the English words slapped on
technical things seemed pretty odd as well.
Television was made up, and is a combo of two words, I think it may be in
Arabic's best interest at the UI level to simply decide and
set a standard on words to be used.  This would act as a standard template
and people could say their app is compliant with so-and-so arabic standard.

Just a thought, but I remember hearing conversations like this a long time
ago, making a decision even if it is half wrong, is better than no decision
at all.

peace,

rami


On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> wrote:

> Nice article, but if not so much interest in case of Arabic translators.
> Arabic is a completely different language with a different script, using
> English terms as such isn't a viable option, transliteration is as bad.
> In the same time, you can't depend on the common usage because of the
> diglossa status, what works with vernacular Arabic isn't (most of the
> time) suitable for the written classical or modern standard Arabic.
>
> Regards,
>  Khaled
>
> On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 09:11:19AM +0300, Jad/Hakam madi wrote:
> >
> http://www.proz.com/translation-articles/articles/33/1/Technical-terms---translate-or-not-translate
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