[djpretzel]

The following staff translators recently completed translations of several major OCR documents into different languages:

• French - PriZm (Pascal Jetté)
• Japanese - CHIPP Damage (Jahan Zoltan Honma)
• Spanish - Sir_NutS (Michael Molina)

Before we announce these translations and alert appropriate foreign-language sites to their existence, we'd like feedback from those fluent in the language(s) with regards to the accuracy/clarity of the translated versions.

We're not looking for nitpicky/subjective critiques - translation is almost always a tricky enough task that there are numerous ways of approaching that all have their relative merits. We're specifically looking for feedback/corrections that would:

• Correct significant inaccuracies
• Significantly improve clarity
• Utilize more commonly accepted terms

... all relative to the official versions of the documents in question, which are in English.

Personally, I'm really excited about this... already we've sent the policy and submission standards to Ryo Lion, who indicated essentially that they made a lot more sense than the automated translation software he was using. Here are links to the official documents and their corresponding translations:

• Content Policy (http://www.ocremix.org/info/Content_Policy)
  • French
  • Japanese
• Mission (http://www.ocremix.org/info/Mission)
  • French
  • Japanese
  • Spanish
• Submission Standards and Instructions (http://www.ocremix.org/info/Submissi...d_Instructions)
  • Japanese
  • Spanish

We're still working on a Spanish translation of the Content Policy and a French translation of the Submission Standards, but the work done so far represents a significant time investment from our three translators (awesome job, guys) and myself, and I'm proud of the progress we've made on this task.

Please avoid personal criticism and favor constructive criticism - each of our three translators spent a lot of time on this work, and in some cases it's already been reviewed by others. Nevertheless, your suggestions & corrections are definitely appreciated!

Thanks,

David Lloyd