Re: Translating software into your conlang
From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
Date: | Saturday, May 17, 2008, 21:17 |
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Carsten Becker <carbeck@...> wrote:
> Matahaniya ang Santiago Matías Feldman <iskun20@...>:
>
>> Have you ever thought of having the software you have
>> in your PC translated into your conlang? I mean, all
>> the command labels in, say, the Microsoft Word, or
>> whatever software you use (i.e. File, Edit, View,
>> etc.) ... I don't think it would be impossible... Do
>> you know any way to do it?
>
> I have tried to translate Opera and StarDownloader into Ayeri so far. I
> completed StarDownloader, but eventually gave up on Opera -- it took too
> much time.
I translated most of Opera's UI into Mark Rosenfelder's conlang Verdurian once.
On the other hand, that was several years--and several Opera
versions--ago, and the number of menu items was surely less than now.
Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>