Re: An Attempt in Emacs Translation

[Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan@gmail.com>]

+Thanga Ayyanar
 +Mohan R +Iron Man +Ashok Ramachandran (via Google Docs)

Thanks for the good work.

Will do a read on this week end and let you know.

Keep writing.

will publish in kaniyam.com as a series.

வெள்., 1 மார்., 2024, AM 6:13 அன்று, Jai Vetrivelan
<jaivetrivelan@gmail.com> எழுதியது:
>
> Hello,
>
> While migrating my dotfiles, I discovered a partial Tamil translation of the
> Emacs tutorial that I had attempted years ago. I am attaching a copy of the file
> with this email, hoping to receive suggestions for improvement.
>
> If the quality of this translation meets the standards required by other
> technical resources in Tamil, I could translate the remaining text and submit it
> upstream. This could potentially pave the way for me to work on future
> translation projects. I have already signed the copyright papers for Emacs with
> FSF.
>
>
> (Please check till the end of the file while proofreading—A majority of the
> translation was done from below)
>
> While I have retained the English text for proofreading purposes, they are meant
> to be removed in the final versions of the document (excluding the final
> paragraph “COPYING” which has both English and Tamil text)
>
> There could be another paragraph that explains the technical terms used and how
> Emacs deviates from modern editors similar to how the Chinese translation does
> it.
>
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/etc/tutorials/TUTORIAL.zh#n972
>
> And these are some words (along with their current translations) that could use
> a better equivalent in Tamil:
>
> Kill - "அகற்றுதல்"; Delete - "நீக்குதல்"; Undo - "மீளமை"; Yank - "ஒட்டு"
> Crash - "வீழ்ச்சி"; Occurrence - "நிகழ்வு"; Terminate - "செயல்முறி";
> Type <chr> - "<chr> என்று தட்டச்சிடவும்"; Scroll - "திரையுருட்டல்"
>
> --
> Jai Vetrivelan



-- 
Regards,
T.Shrinivasan


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