Re: [tei-council] How about a translate-a-thon at the Members Meeting?

On 14-12-30 04:28 AM, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:

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On 29 Dec 2014, at 23:13, Lou Burnard wrote:

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But you don't need to do that. The translated pairs are already there. All you need is to index them so that I can look up a word or phrase in (say) the English, and see each desc in which it appears, along with the corresponding translation in (say) French for that desc.

Yes, exactly. It was the thought of implementing just this which made me a quail, finding corresponding words and phrases and indexing them. It's probably easier than I think. Am not tempted, though :-)

While it might be practical, I don't think indexing by word is really going to be helpful. The same word in English in two given contexts is not necessarily best translated by the same word in French in each case. But I agree that one thing we could provide in advance is a standard vocabulary of terms and their French equivalents. Cheers, Martin

Sebastian